Relatos salvajes (2014) Reviews

• Too much fun and human darkness for one day.

  patrickfile2014-08-25

  Watched last night at the theater with my girlfriend. It's a compilations of 6 tales, but they don't have the same type of lenght, humor or darkness. Each one is unique. 1) Airplane tale: fantastic, hilarating and surrealistic story to open the series. 2) Coffee shop tale: shorter, but dark and makes you wonder what's "freedom" for some people. 3) Road tale: excellent. A really LOT of violence and a little bit of humor makes this one of the best tales in the movie. 4) Human limit tale: a man that's having a couple of really bad days explode when he runs out of patiente. Great acting. 5) Accident tale: 90% darkness. And the fact that could be a very possible story makes it even darker. Shocking finale. 6) Wedding tale: almost impossible to qualify. Hilarious for the most part, but at the end, it will make you wonder to whom you are spending your whole life with. Seeing this compilation in a theater for the price of one, its a damn good deal if you ask me. Go watch it.

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• Clever, dark and funny

  sanarg2014-08-25

  The movie is actually 6 short films, all related by brutal violence motivated by different situations. Family. Society. Government. It works very well like that, lasting over 120 minutes that go by quickly. It feels very fluid. Szifrón's eye is very precise. You can tell everything was very well thought. I wouldn't say this is a philosophical film, but it is clever entertainment, that makes you think if this wild tales are actually that wild... Even though this stories are taken to the extreme, everything feels somehow possible when you look back. Darkly humorous. Watch it.

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• What a wonderful idea!

  romanvartanov20142015-01-30

  I went to see this movie hoping to get a brake from Hollywood production. And I did. It was amazing, one of the best movies I've seen on big screen in 2 or 3 years. Plot consists of different stories which all have one thing in common: they are about revenge. Every single story starts rather boring. At the very beginning I was thinking "What's so wild about it? It is just lame" and by the end of the intro I was like "Holy God! No, they did not just twist it like that! OMG!" And it gets better. A true masterpiece. I am from Russia so for me it was rather interesting and surprising that Latin America is so similar to Russia. The views, the behaviour of the people, the insanity - all like at home. You won't regret seeing this movie. Don't take your kid or your grandmother though.

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• The Edge Of Reason

  gogoschka-12018-02-11

  Hilarious and very, very black comedy consisting of six episodes about people who get driven to the edge of reason (and a little beyond). The acting and writing in this gem from Argentina are superb, and the beautifully photographed segments keep you thrilled and unable to guess just what crazy turn they will take next. A wonderful joy of a film for film lovers with a rather twisted sense of humor. 8 stars out of 10. In case you're interested in more underrated film gems, here's some of my favorites: imdb.com/list/ls070242495

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• Wildly thrilling. Wildly fun. Wildly original.

  twilliams762015-03-17

  This Argentine film that found itself nominated for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award comes to us from director Damián Szifrón who has crafted a feature film comprised of a series of 6 vignettes/small stories about human beings from all walks of (Argentine) life who are all tested and taken to their limits ... until they finally lose control. While mostly disastrous the film is also WILDly thrilling and wholly original in its daring cheekiness ... as the film is a bitter dark comedy (with tinges of brutal drama). It is a film about a myriad group of people on a plane; a young waitress who still finds herself grieving over a family tragedy of the past; an encounter between two men from different social classes on a desolate highway; a man growing tired of the rat race of life in which we are all destined to lose; the aftermath of a horrible automobile accident; and a wedding reception like none you've ever seen before. All feature one or two characters taken to the edge ... It is how each of them handles their various situations that give us our WILD stories. Fascinatingly grim at times, the film almost always miraculously produces laughter and grins. Much of the laughter might be heavily muffled as one chuckles under his/her breath as others around them fail to see the director's (WILDly) wicked sense of humor come into play in some of the film's intense situations; but the dark tone pervades the entire film. While the film is most definitely tragic in many instances, Wild Tales is a comedy of errors about human nature and who we are. Some can watch this and most-likely not pick up even a hint of humor; but it is there ... and it is fantastically facetious. Wildly thrilling. Wildly fun. Wildly original. It is courageously wild.

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