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Babylon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDamien Chazelle
Written byDamien Chazelle
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyLinus Sandgren
Edited byTom Cross
Music byJustin Hurwitz
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • December 15, 2022 (2022-12-15) (Los Angeles)
  • December 23, 2022 (2022-12-23) (United States)
Running time
189 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$78–80 million[2][3]
Box office$5.4 million[4][5]

Babylon is a 2022 American epic period comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, and Li Jun Li. Its plot chronicles the rise and fall of multiple characters during Hollywood's transition from silent to sound films in the late 1920s.

Chazelle began developing the film in July 2019, with Lionsgate as the frontrunner to acquire the project. It was subsequently announced that Paramount Pictures had acquired worldwide rights in November 2019. Much of the main cast joined the project between January 2020 and August 2021, and filming took place in Los Angeles from July to October 2021.

Babylon premiered in Los Angeles on December 15, 2022, and was released in the United States on December 23, 2022, by Paramount Pictures. The film polarized critics, who praised its cinematography, score, and performances (particularly Robbie), but criticized its screenplay, Chazelle’s direction, the graphic content and runtime. It received five nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and nine nominations at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture.

Plot

In Los Angeles during the Roaring Twenties, Manuel "Manny" Torres, a Mexican immigrant and aspiring filmmaker, works odd jobs peripheral to the burgeoning silent film industry. Manny helps secure the transport of an elephant to a bacchanalian party at Kinoscope Studios executive Don Wallach's mansion, where he crosses paths with Nellie LaRoy, a brash and ambitious aspiring starlet from New Jersey, and quickly becomes smitten with her. As they share their dreams together, Manny reveals that he wishes to be a part of something bigger, while Nellie declares herself a star. Jack Conrad, a benevolent but troubled, oft-married film star, is divorced by his wife at the party. He continues cajoling, unfettered.

Also in attendance are queer cabaret performer Lady Fay Zhu and African-American jazz trumpeter Sidney Palmer. Manny and Nellie spend most of the evening together, before the flamboyantly-dancing Nellie is spotted there and swiftly recruited to appear in a film for Wallach's studio (replacing an actress who overdosed earlier); during filming, she crudely upstages the film's star Constance Moore. Meanwhile, Manny climbs the ranks of the studio system after befriending Jack, who helps secure Manny several assistant jobs at Kinoscope, including rushing to find a new camera to film the final scene during golden hour.

Nellie quickly becomes an it-girl whose exploits are documented by gossip columnist Elinor St. John, who also writes about other stars, including Jack. As the advent of sound film displaces silents in the late-1920s, Manny is determined to adapt to the technical and logistical changes, eventually securing himself directorial jobs. This includes securing Sidney work as onscreen talent for Kinoscope. Nellie struggles to navigate the demands that sound film makes on actors, and begins indulging in drug use and reckless gambling, tarnishing her reputation despite Manny's attempts to help her.

Nellie, shown to have an institutionalized mother, eggs on her drunken father-cum-business manager to publicly fight a rattle snake. However, he passes out and she fights the snake instead. She's bitten by the snake. Lady Fay comes to Nellie's aid, sucking the venom out of her neck. Nellie revives and passionately kisses Lady Fay. While running lines with his wife, Jack is devastated when he receives a call notifying him that his longtime friend and producer, George Munn, had committed suicide over a romantic rejection.

By 1932 Hollywood becomes more puritanical and Jack's popularity has waned. He continues to work in low-budget films for Kinoscope, despite public scrutiny. Meanwhile, Sidney has become an esteemed musician within the studio, eventually securing his own musical film in which he leads an orchestra, but is greatly offended when Manny requests that he use makeup to darken his skin for Southern audiences, as his fellow musicians possess darker skin tones. After completing the film, Sidney cuts ties with Kinoscope entirely. Manny subsequently fires Fay, a title writer for the studio, when she garners the struggling Nellie negative press attention for their lesbian affair. Elinor attempts to revamp Nellie's image and ingratiate her into Hollywood's high society, but Nellie lashes out against the upper class's snobbery at a party, furthering her public downfall when she vomits all over the host in front of the entire party.

When Jack finds a cover story by Elinor about his declining popularity, he confronts her at her home, where she bluntly explains that his star has faded, and that he, like her, will in time be replaced by industry newcomers. Elinor insists he find comfort in the fact that they both have made their mark, and he is immortalized on celluloid. Meanwhile, Nellie finds her life in danger from gangster James McKay over her massive gambling debts. Manny initially rejects her pleas for help and lashes out at her for ruining his life. However, reminiscing about their past friendship and his feelings for her, he attempts to help her by securing funds from a longtime on-set drug pusher and aspiring actor, known as "The Count", and visits McKay with him to pay off Nellie's debt, but panics upon learning the money is fake, made by Manny's own prop maker. McKay invites the men to a subterranean gathering space for debauched parties, raving about potential film ideas. When McKay realizes the cash is prop money, he attempts to kill them, but they narrowly escape after Manny kills McKay's henchman and they release a chained alligator to slow down the ensuing mob.

Manny attempts to convince Nellie to flee with him to Mexico. She initially resists, wishing to accept her fate, but she eventually relents and agrees to accompany him. They decide they will marry in Mexico and start a new life. McKay's associate tracks Manny before they can depart, killing The Count but sparing Manny's life. Meanwhile, Nellie renegs on her decision to leave with Manny and manically dances into the night. Simultaneously, Jack encounters Fay at a hotel party, where she tells him of her departure for Europe to work for Pathé. After Fay departs, Jack, despondent and depressed over the state of his career and the waning of the old Hollywood way of life, calmly goes to his hotel room and shoots himself. A montage reveals newspaper clippings detailing how Nellie was found dead in a hotel room at age 34.

Two decades later, in 1952, Manny returns to California with his wife and young daughter, having fled to New York City, where he established a successful camera retail business. He shows his family the entrance to Kinoscope Studios (actually the Melrose gate of the Paramount Pictures studio). Manny also visits a nearby cinema alone to see Singin' in the Rain. Reminded of his love for Nellie, he is moved to tears by the film's depiction of the industry's transition from silent films to talkies, as it recreates several scenarios he experienced and bore witness to himself. A century-spanning montage of numerous films, ranging from silent pictures to contemporary 21st-century cinema to abstract representations of the filmic form, follows. Realizing that his efforts made an impact and that he had successfully achieved much of his dream, Manny smiles.

Cast

Production

Development

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Writer and director Damien Chazelle (left), lead actors Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, and actor and executive producer Tobey Maguire.

It was announced in July 2019 that Damien Chazelle had set his next project, a period drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Lionsgate Films was the frontrunner to acquire the project, with Emma Stone and Brad Pitt in the mix to star.[14] In November, Paramount Pictures acquired worldwide rights to the project, with Stone and Pitt still circling roles.[15] Pitt confirmed his involvement in January 2020, describing the film as being set when the silent film era transitioned into sound.[16] He was set to play a character modeled on actor-director John Gilbert.[17]

By December 2020, Margot Robbie was in early negotiations to replace Stone, who exited the film due to scheduling conflicts, and Li Jun Li was also cast.[18][19] Robbie was confirmed in March 2021, with Jovan Adepo and Diego Calva also joining.[7][17][20]

In June, Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, Flea, Samara Weaving, Rory Scovel, Lukas Haas, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne, Damon Gupton, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, Phoebe Tonkin, and Tobey Maguire (who is also an executive producer for the film), joined the cast.[21][22][23] In July 2021, Jean Smart joined the cast.[24] In August 2021, Chloe Fineman, Jeff Garlin, Telvin Griffin[25] and Troy Metcalf joined the cast of the film.[26]

Filming

Filming was initially set to take place in California in mid-2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming began on July 1, 2021, and wrapped on October 21, 2021.[27][28][23][29][30]

Music

Main article: Babylon (soundtrack)

Justin Hurwitz, a frequent collaborator of Chazelle, composed the film's score. Two tracks from the score, "Call Me Manny" and "Voodoo Mama," were released digitally on November 10, 2022, the latter track being used to underscore the film's first trailer. The soundtrack album was released by Interscope Records on December 9, 2022.[31]

Release

Babylon was first screened for critics and industry on November 14, 2022, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles and in New York City the following day.[32] It was released on December 23, 2022.[33] The film was initially scheduled for a December 25, 2021, limited release and a January 7, 2022, wide release,[15] but was later delayed by an entire year, with a December 25, 2022 limited release, and a January 6, 2023 wide release, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[34] In October, the film was moved two days earlier to the current date and set for a solely wide release instead.[35]

Marketing

The first red-banded trailer for Babylon premiered on September 12, 2022, at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival during a Q&A event with Chazelle and TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. It was released to the public the following day, alongside character posters of the main cast.[36][37] Noting its uncensored nudity, profanity and drug use, several publications compared the trailer's atmosphere to that of films such as The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)[38][39] and The Great Gatsby (2013), which star Robbie and Maguire, respectively.[40][41] A featurette about the making of the film was released on November 21, 2022.[42] The second and final trailer for the film and its theatrical release poster were released on November 28, 2022.[43]

Reception

Box office

In the United States and Canada, Babylon was released alongside Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and was initially projected to gross $12–15 million from 3,342 theaters over its four-day opening weekend.[44][45] The film made $1.5 million on its first day (including Thursday-night previews) and went on to debut to just $3.5 million in its opening weekend (and a total of $5.3 million over the four days), finishing fourth at the box office. Deadline cited the general public's declining interest in prestige films, the threat of a tripledemic surge in COVID-19 and flu cases, and the nationwide impact of Winter Storm Elliott as reasons for lower-than-expected theater attendance.[3][46]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Babylon holds a rating of 56% based on 208 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Babylon's overwhelming muchness is exhausting, but much like the industry it honors, its well-acted, well-crafted glitz and glamour can often be an effective distraction."[47] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[48] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 74% of audience members gave the film a positive score, with 47% saying they would definitely recommend it.[3]

In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle praised Chazelle's ambition and direction, writing that "Babylon is what movie love really looks like."[49] The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney described it as a "syncopated concentration of hedonistic revelry", praising the cast performances, score, cinematography, costume and production design, but criticizing the screenplay and direction—ultimately concluding "it’s hard to imagine the overstuffed yet insubstantial Babylon finding its way into many screen-classic montages".[50] Conversely, Peter Hammond of Deadline wrote that "it is guaranteed to be a movie that will stay in your head", commending the direction, production design, and cast performances.[51]

In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw assigned the film three stars out of five, applauding the performances of Robbie and Pitt for elevating "a story in no hurry to engage with the true-life nastiness of its era".[52] Writing for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson concurred with Bradshaw's sentiment, stating: "These are little islands in a sea of mannered chaos, but it begins to feel, as Babylon stretches out across three hours and eight minutes, that Chazelle has no clear idea where all of this is going."[53] In a scathing review for Time, Stephanie Zacharek highlighted Jun Li's performance, but criticized Chazelle's screenplay and direction, summarizing: "Babylon is a manic sprawl that only pretends to celebrate cinema. It’s really about prurience, dumb sensation, self-congratulation and willful ignorance of history."[54]

Describing it as "a nauseous, high-calorie sugar rush of a movie that not only wants to have its cake and eat it too, but also to puke it up, smear it around, and cram it in the viewer’s face" in his review for The Ringer, Adam Nayman saw the film as a "deliberately designed career-killer" for Chazelle and commended his direction and ambition alongside the cast performances (particularly Robbie's).[55] Writing less enthusiastically about the film in Variety, Peter Debruge stated that "Babylon presents itself as the apotheosis of all that has come before, the ne plus ultra of the medium's own potential, and indeed, it's an experience that won't be easily topped, in this or any year. But that doesn't make it great or even particularly coherent".[56] Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised Chazelle's storytelling and characters, but criticized other aspects of his screenplay, ultimately concluding: "Artistically, what Babylon adds to the classic Hollywood that it celebrates is sex and nudity, drugs and violence, a more diverse cast, and a batch of kitchen-sink chaos that replaces the whys and wherefores of coherent thought with the exhortation to buy a ticket, cast one’s eyes up to the screen, and worship in the dark."[57][58]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Chicago Film Critics Association December 14, 2022 Best Cinematography Linus Sandgren Nominated [59]
Best Best Editing Tom Cross Nominated
Best Original Score Justin Hurwitz Won
Best Costume Design Mary Zophres Nominated
Best Art Direction/Production Design Babylon Nominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association December 18, 2022 Best Score Justin Hurwitz Nominated [60]
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 19, 2022 Best Picture Babylon 9th place [61]
Florida Film Critics Circle December 22, 2022 Best Score Justin Hurwitz Won [62]
Best Art Direction / Production Design Babylon Won
Best Ensemble Runner-up
Golden Globe Awards January 10, 2023 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Pending [63]
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Diego Calva Pending
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Margot Robbie Pending
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Brad Pitt Pending
Best Original Score Justin Hurwitz Pending
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 15, 2023 Best Picture Babylon Pending [64]
Best Director Damien Chazelle Pending
Best Actress Margot Robbie Pending
Best Cinematography Linus Sandgren Pending
Best Editing Tom Cross Pending
Best Costume Design Mary Zophres Pending
Best Production Design Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino Pending
Best Score Justin Hurwitz Pending
Best Hair and Makeup Babylon Pending
Satellite Awards February 11, 2023 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Diego Calva Pending [65]
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Margot Robbie Pending
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Jean Smart Pending
Best Art Direction and Production Design Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino Pending
Best Costume Design Mary Zophres Pending
Best Original Score Justin Hurwitz Pending
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Steve Morrow, Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan & Andy Nelson Pending
Best Visual Effects Jay Cooper, Elia Popov, Kevin Martel, Ebrahim Jahromi Pending
Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Awards February 17, 2023 Best Costume Design Mary Zophres Pending [66]
Best Production Design Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino Pending
Best Score Justin Hurwitz Pending
Hollywood Critics Association Awards February 24, 2023 Best Cast Ensemble Babylon Pending [67]
AACTA International Awards February 24, 2023 Best Actress Margot Robbie Pending [68]
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt Pending
Best Supporting Actress Jean Smart Pending

See also

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