Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" -- a blood-and-guts war story of Jewish-American soldiers on a mission to murder Nazis -- gets its world premiere on Wednesday in Cannes.
The long-awaited film from the US director of "Reservoir Dogs" is arguably the most high-profile of the 20 films from around the globe vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or to be handed out on Sunday.
"In the last 20 years, we've seen a lot of movies that show war from the anti-war, misery perspective," Tarantino, who won the top prize here in 1994 for "Pulp Fiction", told Hollywood Reporter magazine on Tuesday.
"I don't mean to say I'm pro-war, because I'm not," he said, but he wanted to do a war movie that was "thrilling and exciting".
The thousands of journalists at Cannes are waiting to see if "Inglourious Basterds" turns out to be as thrilling and exciting as Tarantino says when it screens Wednesday morning ahead of the red carpet showing in the evening.
Tarantino is in town along with Brad Pitt and several other of the 160-minute film's A-list cast, who including Samuel L. Jackson, Mike Myers, Diane Kruger and upcoming Irish actor Michael Fassbender.
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Waiting to see my Brad Pitt ^ ^
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