Hop Film: Wild Tales
This wickedly delightful anthology of six shorts explores the many roads to vengeance, as the principal characters go to outlandishly murderous lengths to get even.
Revenge, if not always sweet, can, in the right hands, be very funny. This wickedly delightful anthology of six shorts explores the many roads to vengeance, as the principal characters—having suffered insults and indignities, trivial and serious—go to outlandishly murderous lengths to get even. Says director Szifron, “Most of us live with the frustration of having to repress oneself, but some people explode. This is a movie about those who explode, and we can all understand why they do.” This provocative satire, nominated for Best Foreign Language film and produced by Pedro Almodóvar, enacts a savage assault on Argentine society, skewering class and gender biases with a deliciously morbid sense of humor. D: Damian Szifron, Argentina, subtitled, 2014, 122m
