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Thanks! Everything I know about the film strikes me as duplicitously sentimental -- showing tons of depravity and disgusting acts but in the end trying to have one's cake and eat it too as a heartfelt celebration of the "never never land" of Hollywood. But then vomiting. If the director was...

Pauline Kael once reviewed Bertolucci's "The Conformist" and included some observations about how modern directors view the perceived allure of the glitz, glamour, and decadence of past eras. I've been loathe to watch "Babylon" because I detect some of the traits that she speaks about as...