Hello everyone,
For this Wednesday, we are showing an Argentinian
movie "Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales)", directed by
Damián Szifrón (more details below).
It is actually
a collection of six short films.
Please feel free to pass the message around and
invite your friends. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales)
Date and Time: July 8, Wednesday, 6:30-9
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Damián Szifrón
Partial List of Characters:
Darío Grandinetti ...
María Marull
Mónica Villa
Rita Cortese
Julieta Zylberberg
César Bordón
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Walter Donado
Ricardo Darín
Nancy Dupláa
Oscar Martínez
María Onetto
Osmar Núñez
Germán de Silva
Erica Rivas
Diego Gentile
US Rating: R
Language: Spanish
Length: 122 mins
Media: Bluray, color
"...a black comedy film divided in six segments.
(1) "Pasternak": one model and a music critic
in a plane find that they have a common
acquaintance called Pasternak...
(2) "The Rats": a waitress of a diner recognizes
her client as the loan shark that caused a tragedy
in her family...
(3) "The Strongest": Two drivers on a lone highway
have an argument with tragic consequences.
(4) "Little Bomb": The demolition engineer has his
car towed by a truck for parking in a wrong place...
(5) "The Proposal": The reckless hit-and-run son of
a wealthy family hits and kills a pregnant woman. He
wakes up his parents and his father calls the lawyer...
(6) "Until Death Do Us Apart": During the wedding
party, the wife discovers that her husband has
cheated her with one of the guests and decides to
payback."
My Comments:
I have removed the spoilers from the summary I quoted
above. Not that there is much suspense, but I think
they are short stories so the punchlines are best
not known prior to watching the movie. These stories
are really akin to Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" in
the sense of being wild and perhaps a little bloody
at times, but thematically they remind me of the TV
series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
Definitely a dark comedy exploiting the primal
side of human thirst for revenge... people
behaving badly and then getting their due.
Very well acted and directed...it seems like the cast
had a lot of fun making the movie. Also, the movie
was nominated for Best Foreign Movie at the 2015 Academy
Awards.
