From our 2016 Festival:
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, Argentinian director Damián Szifrón’s Wild Tales is a blackly comic compendium of six outrageously bizarre stories, each more shocking and hilarious than the last. No doubt the film has something of an advantage in that it comes from one filmmaker, and thus reflects a singular vision and sensibility. Beyond that, it must be said that Szifrón has remarkable skills as both a director and a storyteller.
Each of the six stories here, which average about 20 minutes, is thoroughly enthralling, and all are united by a mordant black humor. Connected thematically in dealing with revenge and retribution, each segment sets up expectations that its successor ingeniously fulfills or surpasses.
