The Vancouver International Film Festival presents:
Wild Tales (Spain, Argentina, 2014, 122 mins, DCP)
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Damián Szifron
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Óscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, Darío Grandinetti
Classification: 19+
December 31, 2015, 6:30pm
Vancity Theatre
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A waitress in an empty late-night diner realizes the boorish customer she’s serving is the man who ruined her life; a bride discovers her new husband has been unfaithful and improvises payback in the midst of an unforgettable wedding party; on an empty stretch of desert highway a yuppie and a trucker engage in increasingly furious and extreme road games… Wild Tales lives up to its name and then some, packing six absurdly taut, funny and emotionally-charged short films into its running time. The common theme is revenge, and it’s delivered with a wicked sense of humour that’s befitting of the film’s producers, Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar. Argentine director Damián Szifrón draws blistering performances from a great cast – including cult hero Ricardo Darin as an executive pushed too far by the municipal parking authorities – and brings it all together with a fresh and inventive visual style. It’s at least a week’s water-cooler conversation in one quick fix.
“The year’s most fearlessly funny film.” Richard Corliss, Time
“Wild Tales is loose-limbed, rowdy, and exhilarating — in its vibrant lunacy, and with its cartoonishly brash violence, it’s a little bit Almodóvar, a little bit Tarantino.” Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
“In between its shocker start and equally startling windup, this Argentine anthology offers up a scabrous, often unsettlingly funny look at human behavior in extremis.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times