"Era uma Vez em... Hollywood" (2019): fabulação, luto e reinvenção do passado no cinema de Quentin Tarantino

This article analyzes “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood” (2019), by Quentin Tarantino, and discusses how the film revisits the trauma of the August 1969 murders through memory and fabulation. It hypothesizes that the fictional alteration of the past constitutes a work of mourning in which Sharon Tate’s survival coexists with the memory of her death and her limited narrative agency. The analysis focuses on sequences devoted to Tate, the trajectories of Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, and the alternative ending, considering narrative construction, mise-en-scène, and the treatment of violence. The theoretical discussion brings Paul Ricœur (1994) and Robert Rosenstone (2010) into dialogue with the contributions of Laura Mulvey (2018) and Raymond Bellour (1997). The results identify a contradiction between reparation and silencing in Tate’s survival, while Rick and Cliff’s trajectories relate historical loss to the decline of western narrative forms and models of masculinity. The rewriting of the past imagines alternative destinies without erasing the loss inscribed in cultural memory.