Babylon
“Always make a scene.”
DramaComedy
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
VIBE
This is a dizzying, no-holds-barred plunge into the roaring, debaucherous early days of Hollywood. It feels like a champagne-soaked fever dream, exhilarating in its chaotic energy and grand spectacle, yet underscored by a profound melancholy for fleeting glory. It's a relentless, audacious sensory overload.
decadentexhilaratingmelancholicfreneticabsurdisttragicmaximalist filmmakinglavish period pieceepic scalevisually opulentsatiricalexcessambitionthe fleeting nature of fameartistic changehedonism
elephantgamblinggambling debtmovie businessorgycocainemelancholychampagnealcoholismhollywoodalcoholicfilmmakingmovie starsilent film star1920sold hollywoodfading starsex
