Year: 2014
Director: Damián Szifrón
Writer: Damián Szifrón
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Erica Rivas, Darío Grandinetti, María
Marull, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Zylberberg, Oscar Martínez, Diego Gentile
“Wild Tales” is nothing short of amazing,
simultaneously hilarious and dark thrill ride. Actually, the less you know
about the film, the better it is. When I saw it with a friend, we knew
absolutely nothing about it, besides the fact that it’s Oscar-nominated and “fun.”
So, when we sat down in the cinema, we were absolutely surprised, electrified
and by the end of the movie – thoroughly entertained. I didn’t even know that
it consists of six different stories.
“Wild Tales”
is a black comedy, filled with violence and action that will keep you at the
edge of your seat. It effortlessly combines action and tension with the comedy;
it does the same with with drama, romance and thriller. The introductory story
even takes the type of situation that we would usually see in cartoons and excitingly
ushers us headfirst into the crazy world of the movie.
Damián
Szifrón, who has been directing and writing primarily for TV up to this point, takes full
advantage of his experience with the short form. In fact, the film originally
included a seventh tale called “Bonus Track” and the order of the stories was
different. Remarkably, every unique story is enough fascinating and exciting by
itself, but there are still common themes and style between all “tales.” With
hot-headed characters that are driven in one way or another to their breaking
point and often to a quite animalistic state, “Wild Tales” makes you question
the inherent humanity of our species. In relation
to that the movie has great opening credits, in which each actor is represented
by the image of a wild animal. The director himself chose a fox, because he has
red hair and his father had a fondness of the animal.
“Wild Tales”
is considered an Argentine-Spanish production with the notable involvement of
Pedro Almodovar as one of the producers. The movie looks great cinematically
and also sounds great. Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla, a two-time Oscar winner
composed the soundtrack.
“Wild Tales”
was among the Oscar nominated foreign-language films for 2014 and probably the
most unexpected one, since it’s very fast-paced, filled with action and
violence. It is also the seventh film from Argentina nominated for the award. The
movie quickly became the most seen film in Argentina for 2014 and was shown in
275 cinemas throughout the country. Consequently, by the end of the it became the
most seen film from Argentine of all-time. “Wild Tales” was also celebrated at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it reportedly received a standing ovation for
about 10 minutes. The film was also in the competition for the Palme d'Or at
the Festival.
The movie has 8,2 on IMDB
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3011894/
8,9 from users and 77
from critics on MetaCritic - http://www.metacritic.com/movie/wild-tales
95% on RottenTomatoes
- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wild_tales
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