WILD TALES 4th Dec 2015
- an Argentinian portmanteau movie that is a tinderbox of delights
Review for Cannes Film Festival 2014
Damián Szifron’s anthology of tales of revenge is a splendidly anarchic portrait of a world on the
verge of a nervous breakdown. Fired by “the undeniable pleasure of
losing control”, Szifron’s satirical compendium owes as much
to the American TV show Tales from the Crypt as to the scandalous European subversions of Luís Buñuel.
From aeroplanes to cars, from cafes to sitting rooms, bourgeois
repression is not so much dissected as gleefully detonated from within.
Here are stories of lives destroyed by parking fines, of road-rage
insults escalating into apocalyptic Duel-like confrontations, of white wedding parties descending into something more akin to the final scenes from Carrie
– all defined by the sudden and violent breakdown of “polite”
behaviour. The results are shocking and sharp as a knife, but be warned –
the unfolding real-life tragedy in the Alps casts a grim unforeseen
shadow over the opening segment.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics concensus:
Wickedly hilarious and delightfully deranged, Wild Tales is a subversive
satire that doubles as a uniformly entertaining anthology film.
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