2019 Film Festival
film synopsis
“A waitress in an empty late-night diner realizes the boorish customer she’s serving is the man who ruined her life; a bride discovers her new husband has been unfaithful and improvises payback in the midst of an unforgettable wedding party; on an empty stretch of desert highway a yuppie and a trucker engage in increasingly furious and extreme road games… Wild Tales lives up to its name and then some, packing six absurdly taut, funny and emotionally charged short films into its running time. The common theme is revenge, and it’s delivered with a wicked sense of humor that’s befitting of the film’s producers, Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar.
Argentine director Damián Szifrón draws blistering performances from a great cast — including the great Ricardo Darin as an executive pushed too far by the municipal parking authorities — and brings it all together with a fresh and inventive visual style. It’s at least a week’s worth of water-cooler conversations in one quick fix.” -PSIFF 2015