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<\/p>\nReviewed by e Howard Green. \u00a0Viewed at the Lobero Theatre during the Santa Barbara\u00a0International Film Festival on Saturday February 7th.<\/p>\n
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SBIFF again shows its foresight by presenting all five of the Foreign Language nominees in the 2015 Academy Awards, with Wild Tales<\/strong> <\/em>being shown on the final afternoon\u00a0of the festival. \u00a0I almost missed this hilarious collection of six “dramas” because the catalog description uses the word “shorts”.<\/p>\n This anthology starts with an airplane trip where passengers discover an amazing coincidence of their mutual association with a man named Pasternak. \u00a0Who could even imagine the next scenes which come before the opening credits!<\/p>\n Then we are shown\u00a0a roadside restaurant where the waitress recognizes a patron as having ruined her family, and where the cook decides to help by using rat poison to try to\u00a0take revenge. \u00a0Now we realize there may be a pattern here, black comedy a la Argentina.<\/p>\n Two cars on a lonely road have a confrontation over a passing incident leading eventually to a call to the authorities for help, but not until the most graphic of insults and responses occur; \u00a0a real cliff hanger.<\/p>\n We can all empathize with the man whose car is towed away for purportedly parking in a yellow zone and then must deal with unfeeling bureaucrats to recover his car and pay what he considers unjust fines for an unmarked area. \u00a0His agony is compounded when it happens again, he is fired, gets separated from his wife, and decides to take action against\u00a0the tow company. \u00a0Wouldn’t we all like to have the opportunity this man takes?<\/p>\n The setting becomes more somber when there is a cover-up and corruption involving a hit-and-run accident killing a pregnant woman. \u00a0What appears to be the planned solution is confounded in the surprising final scene of this segment!<\/p>\n Lastly we are led to a wedding party where the bride confronts the groom on the dance floor about a newly discovered affair he had had, leading to her disillusionment and acting out. \u00a0We hope that all turns out better than the other segments, but can’t be sure.<\/p>\n This is a must see, if you enjoy having your sensibilities played with, and are up for a variety of entertainment in two wonderful hours. \u00a0In Spanish, with English subtitles. \u00a0Highly recommended, if you can find it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by e Howard Green. \u00a0Viewed at the Lobero Theatre during the Santa Barbara\u00a0International Film Festival on Saturday February 7th. SBIFF again shows its foresight by presenting all five of the Foreign Language nominees in the 2015 Academy Awards, with Wild Tales being shown on the final afternoon\u00a0of the festival. \u00a0I almost missed this hilarious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}