France 2 is broadcasting “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” tonight but with one particularity: the film will be cut in half, and for good reason.
The long version of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood airs tonight at 9:10 p.m. on France 2, and for the first time in the clear! An event not to be missed for fans of Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, who make up the cast of this river film set in Hollywood in 1969.
In order to be able to broadcast this film full of nostalgia in prime time, France 2 has planned a little stratagem. The CSA prohibits the distribution of any work prohibited to children under 16 before 10:30 p.m. The public channel therefore chose to show 110 minutes of Tarantino’s film, then pause before broadcasting the most violent end of the film.
After the 110th minute, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) goes to Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers live.
Sony Pictures Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”
Thus, it creates like two films, one intended for children under 12 (the beginning of the film has little violence) and the other, the sequel to the first, prohibited for children under 16. Thanks to this trick, the end of the film, clearly trashairs after 10:30 p.m. and allows the channel to show Quentin Tarantino at prime time.
Without this small concession, the feature film could not have been broadcast in a version faithful to the intentions of the director and would have had to undergo cuts in the most violently graphic scenes to stick to the ban on children under 12 from its broadcast. in prime time.