Babylon

In the late 1920s a fixer, a star, and an actor who can feel the town changing try to outrun the arrival of sound. Chazelle opens at a party that is already too much and then shows the sets where the party was paid for. Diego Calva’s Manny wants in. Margot Robbie’s Nellie is already in and will not be managed. Brad Pitt’s Jack knows the close-up is a kind of clock. The Paramount trailer is the elephant and the camera. The film is the decade after the party.