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"Babylon": Damien Chazelle reveals behind the scenes of a shoot as crazy as what the film tells

2023-01-17T17:34:22.592Z


Filmed "old-fashioned", without special effects and with many extras, this tribute to the beginnings of cinema required prowess and audacity


Welcome to Hollywood… in 1920. The studios are still in their infancy, near a Los Angeles which at the time resembles a wealthy provincial town.

But silent cinema is booming and inventing itself day by day, thanks to a few geniuses, gentle madmen who embark on pharaonic filming in the Californian desert, involving thousands of extras.

Then, when the cameras go out, everyone, producers, actors and technicians, lock themselves up in huge properties where orgiastic parties are given, involving all the excesses - music, alcohol flowing freely, drugs , sex…

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