At age 10, Tarantino was left speechless by this psycho-inspired thriller

An absolute fan of Brian De Palma, whose spiritual son he claims, Quentin Tarantino is generally full of praise for his outstanding fellow filmmaker, to whom we owe The Incorruptibles, Scarface, L’Impasse, Carrie or Pulsions, among others. others. others.

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in his creation Cinema speculationsTarantino shares his passion with Blood Sisters, De Palma’s seventh feature film and the first to introduce him. He was ten years old when the director of Kill Bill first discovered him:

(…) In 1973, when I saw Blood Sisters (…), I found the film sensational and a thunderous production. I’ve never seen a split screen sequence before.

It follows: “(…) De Palma’s virtuoso handling of the camera and his ingenious use of split-screen and cinema-within-a-cinema (or TV-within-a-cinema) perfectly match the cinematic techniques used. with other psycho-style thrillers released that year. Which were numerous, most of which came from Hammer Studios in England.

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“Bloody Sisters’ greatest achievement, apart from setting the template for De Palma’s other Hitchcockian thrillers, is setting the film around the scene of De Palma’s murder with a butcher bringing Wilson a birthday cake, a scene that remains one of the most successful of De Palma’s cinema.”

A fanboy, but not blind!

“The Blood Sisters Problem as a Thriller”Tarantino notes “It’s that once the big moment of the murder has passed and all traces of it have been erased… the thrills drop like a breath. De Palma (and his co-writer Louise Rose) only wrote half the movie, the Wilson/Kidder section. Jennifer Salt’s section is anything but De Palma tries to finish his film as quickly as possible and tries not to spoil the favorable impression created by the dynamic first half of the film.

But then, what problem does Tarantino see in the second installment of Blood Sisters?

“On the one hand, De Palma doesn’t create any other real suspense. On the other hand, there’s Jennifer Salt’s performance as Grace Collier. De Palma tries to portray her character as a stubborn feminist journalist as an unsympathetic, holy woman. And she tries to have fun with that aspect of the character. But Salt’s bulldozed interpretation trumps any comedic intent.”

Nevertheless, it should be noted that Tarantino emphasizes that he liked many other performances of the actress in other films, but it seems that it does not work for him in Blood Sisters.

Fans of the film might find this review a little harsh, but the director has been known to change his mind about movies sometimes, so there’s still hope that he’ll reconsider his decision.

Do you agree with Quentin Tarantino? Have you seen De Palma’s feature film? Unfortunately, it is not available on the platform, but there are excellent physical editions that give it a whole new life.