Film review: Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie are excellently cast as the stars of Babylon

Writer-director Damien Chazelle pulls back the curtain to give us a glimpse of the chaos that reigned in early Hollywood, both on and off-set

Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad and Diego Calva plays Manny Torres in Babylon. Picture: Paramount Pictures.

★★★☆☆

Damien Chazelle’s La-La Land (2016) was an artfully naïve reworking of ‘A Star is Born’, but Babylon (18s), which opens in Hollywood in 1926, is rather more raucous affair.