Responding to the mixed feedback from the premiere showing of Inglourious Basterds at the Cannes Film Festival last week, Director Quentin Tarantino is reportedly headed back to the editing room. Despite the length of the movie, which at its current two hours and 28 minutes was a bit too long for some, the edits might include adding a scene.
One part of his "spaghetti war movie" that drew nearly universal praise, though, was the performance of Austrian soap star Christoph Waltz, who plays the multi-lingual Nazi, SS Colonel Hans Landa. Tarantino had already suggested that he was the lynchpin of the movie. And a Huffington Post review judged him "one of the most compelling villains ever," one "who can make offering a glass of milk seem dripping with menace." Apparently the jury at Cannes agreed, awarding him the prize for best actor.