REVIEW | Wild Tales (2014)


Watch six wild tales of people experiencing meltdown and exacting unrestrained revenge. Pushed to their limit, all their moral constraints fly through the window and they explode with violence and witty language. Victims of cruel circumstances, they fight back with an uproariously wide-scale and highly creative havoc—vengeance in cataclysmic, outrageous proportions.

All six tales are stupendously entertaining: "Pasternak," "Las Ratas" ("The Rats"), "El más fuerte" ("The Strongest"), "Bombita" ("Little Bomb")"La Propuesta" ("The Proposal"), and "Hasta que la muerte nos separe" ("Until Death Do Us Part").

Co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Damián Szifron's Spanish-Argentine dark comedy anthology film Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes), a 2015 nominee for Oscar Best Foreign Film, is a delicious, terrific, and hilarious satire. Feel the raw and blind anger of the characters as stress, injustice, and oppression transform them into beasts and propelling them into a violent, crazy spree. You will find yourself waiting with bated breath, nervous, for their imminent explosion, and when it happens, you will be laughing out loud, wide-eyed, and uttering exclamations of shock.

Brimming with wit, jaw-dropping sequences, and a spectacular cast, Wild Tales is a brilliant, wildly funny, and masterful social commentary, as well as  a deft examination of human behavior, which you will probably watch more than once.





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