Wild Tales

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Wild Tales is an Argentinian black-comedy anthology film written and directed by Damián Szifron. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category at this year’s Academy Awards.

Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world we live in cause stress and depression for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This is a movie about those people. Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover’s betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

“These tales sprang from the most unrestrained corners of the imagination,” Szifron explains. “While I was working to develop other projects – often dispirited by the fact that they were impossible to realize – I began writing a series of short stories to vent my frustrations. When I put them together in one volume, I realized that they were connected by a series of themes that provided unity and coherence: they were all about catharsis, vengeance and destruction. And the undeniable pleasure of losing control.”

Wild Tales is rated 14A. Read our review here.