Wild Tales review.
My Ratings: 4.3/5.
Wild Tales, Spanish title ‘Relatos salvajes’ is an anthology with six individual short films, all of which having a common theme of retribution and vengeance.
These films, all six of them, are wicked (literally wild tales), satirical and even deranged to some extent but again at the same time they are clever, hilarious and highly entertaining.
Be it the passengers on an airplane or a loan-shark who enters a restaurant, two egoistic drivers on a highway or a frustrated citizen who also happens to be a demolition expert, a kid from a rich family who commits a hit and run or an unusual wedding ceremony – the various tales told in this film are brutal yet real.
All these stories are stretched to extremes but yet they somehow seem to be believable!
Most of the characters in these short films are psychologically twisted and are brilliantly portrayed by actors like Ricardo Darín, Erica Rivas, Darío Grandinetti, Diego Gentile, María Marull, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Mónica Villa and others.
Wild Tales competed for the Palme d’Or award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated as the Best Foreign Language Film for last year’s Oscars.
Awesome music composed by Gustavo Santaolalla which perfectly compliments the innovative work of writer/director Damián Szifrón.
Wild Tales – a superbly entertaining black comedy that shouldn’t be missed at any cost.