Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt today presented at the Cannes Film Festival their new “masterpiece” (according to Tarantino), Inglourious Basterds.

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

While critics are already debating the merits of Basterds, the rest of us will have to wait until it hits screens in late August.