Wild Tales is a 2014 Argentine dark comedy anthology film directed by Damián Szifron, consisting of six standalone stories exploring themes of revenge, injustice, and the collapse of social civility. Each segment portrays ordinary people pushed to their absolute limits by frustration, corruption, and betrayal, resulting in explosive and often blackly humorous consequences. The film was a massive critical and commercial success, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Damián Szifron films six unrelated Argentine stories of grievance. The film is the absurd as escalation; each story's punchline is the system breaking.
Damián Szifron films six unrelated Argentine stories of grievance. The film is the gem that proved the anthology can have a thesis.