it is not what a person says about a film , it is what the film says about itself.

We decipher this through film style and form.

Case study: New York Times film critic Farah Nayeri dared to speak out at Cannes about the scant lines Robbie has in Quentin Tarantino's new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood whose world premiere was at Cannes in May. This is not a film about the late Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie) as was believed when the story first broke during pre-production - because it isn't - according to Nayeri, she's just an icon in this film. This is a "love story" between a second rate actor - Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's next door neighbor Rick Dalton (Leonardo Di Caprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt), but ultimately everything Tarantino makes is about himself. Growing up in Hollywood – the title makes sense. He did not want to make a film about the Manson tragedy but only as an enigma at the end of Hollywood's Golden Age - with scenes of Tate as a go-go dancer frozen in time. Tarantino says this film is about "The Loss of Innocence" in 1969 when Tate was murdered. How can we see through these statements made after the film is released through the help of film style in this course? I attend the latest film festivals and see the latest films to bring new cinema input to the course.