Wild Tales
classified 15 SPlease note: This was screened in April 2015
Road-rage drivers, loan sharks, shady lawyers, critics, corrupt politicians, cheating husbands, traffic wardens – all the pressure points of 21st century life get a roasting in this delirious black comedy from Argentina, one of Cannes’ most talked about discoveries. Director Damián Szifron brings together some of the biggest names in Argentine cinema in six unrelated stories, all packaged together in a gloriously retro-styled portmanteau - a wildly funny and cathartic exorcism of the frustrations of daily life. Chock full of crazy ideas and verve (sweet, sweet revenge is exacted by a bride at her wedding party when she discovers her husband has cheated on her, there’s the worst road rage you’ve ever seen, and that thing on the plane? Don’t get us started…), it’s easy to see why the Almodovar brothers came on board as producers. As the Guardian said in their brilliant review Wild Tales is “Delicious, horrible, scary and scabrous… Szifrón brings off a very difficult trick: making something genuinely funny and genuinely scary at the same time."
*Customer Advisory*
In light of the recent tragic events in the French Alps, Watershed would like to offer the following advisory to customers.
The film's UK distributors Curzon Artificial Eye have issued the following statement:
- Our sympathies go out to anyone affected by the tragic events in the Alps. The release date for Wild Tales was decided many months ago, and the film itself had its World Premiere a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. The timing of this terrible incident means that the news broke in the same week that the film is opening in the UK, and it was too late to consider changing the release date. We hope that cinemagoers will be able to recognise that any similarity is a regrettable coincidence and will be able to enjoy this excellent film in the spirit it was intended.
Watershed feels that in addition to the above statement it is necessary to make it clear that the film's opening scene depicts a pilot deliberately crashing a commercial passenger airliner, and that this scene may cause undue distress to some viewers at this time.