Brad, Leo Land At Cannes With Fairy Tale

Twenty-five years after premiering "Pulp Fiction" in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with a gentler fairy tale about 1960s Los Angeles, AP reported.

"Once Upon a Time In ... Hollywood", starring  Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, made its much-anticipated debut Tuesday in Cannes. The movie reflected a fittingly old-school Hollywood glamour to the Cannes red carpet.

According to AP, much of the plot of "Once Upon a Time In ... Hollywood" had been carefully kept under wraps leading up to the premiere. DiCaprio plays a Westerns actor anxious that his notoriety is slipping. Pitt plays his stunt double, friend and, because of a drunk driving offense, his driver. Though set against the backdrop of the Manson Family murders, much of Tarantino's film is invested in recapturing the radiance of a bygone Hollywood.

For "One Upon a Time in ... Hollywood", the 56-year-old Tarantino worked at a more relaxed pace, spending generous amounts of time in odes to spaghetti Westerns and '60s TV shows.

Ahead of the premiere, Tarantino, whose "Pulp Fiction" won the Palme d'Or in 1994, issued a statement to festival audiences imploring them not to spoil the film for future moviegoers — a request repeated before the film's press screening. Journalists lined up hours in advance.

Sony Pictures landed the film and gave it a $95 million budget — a very rare gamble on a high-priced original movie. The movie will be released in U.S. theaters July 26.