{"id":4156,"date":"2015-03-17T06:49:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2015-03-30T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:29:28","slug":"wild-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"Wild Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00c9rica Rivas in Wild Tales<\/p><\/div>\n

This 2015 Argentinian film (trailer<\/a>), directed by Dami\u00e1n Szifron, is a collection of six unconnected short stories, with both comic and catastrophic elements and carrying the tagline \u201cwe can all lose control.\u201d The six very different stories describe \u201chow I would extract my revenge if only I had the nerve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The excellent ensemble cast keeps the unexpected happening . . . as people go to the surreal brink of absurdity and tragedy\u2014and keep going. They carry out the vengeful urges we all feel in moments of betrayal, in flashes of road rage, facing overwhelming temptation, or confronting mindless bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

The first very short tale involves a casual conversation between two airplane passengers, strangers to each other, who happen to discover they both know a would-be musician named G– Pasternak. One is a woman who once broke up with him and the other, a classical music critic who savaged Pasternak\u2019s early work. A passenger sitting in front of them turns around, saying, \u201cPasternak?\u201d She was his elementary school teacher, and says he certainly had problems. After a few more people who\u2019ve wronged poor Pasternak pipe up, the music critic stands and asks, \u201cIs there anybody on this plane who does not<\/em> know Pasternak? And who paid for their own ticket?\u201d There is not. I leave the rest to your imagination. And his.<\/p>\n

The funniest story involves an explosives expert trying to reason with the local parking authority, and one of the most satisfying has a bride take her revenge on the groom who cheated on her. It\u2019s a wedding no one will ever forget! Said Eric Kohn in indieWIRE<\/a>, \u201cWhile adhering to an internal logic that makes each punchline land with a satisfying burst of glee, the movie nevertheless stems from genuine fury aimed a broken world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be sure to catch the opening credits, where the names of key cast and production crew members are shown with photos of wild animals reflecting on their personas. The director, I noted, was a fox.<\/p>\n

An Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film last year, this is one of those rare movies where Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics and audiences are in perfect agreement: 93%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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