2014 · comedy · drama · thriller
Wild Tales
Directed by Damián Szifron2h 2m2014
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
Our read: Wild Tales (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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“You want six Argentine revenge fables that snap from funny to feral.”
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