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Argentina's 2015 Best Foreign Film Oscar candidate turns six tales of revenge into one wild and crazy ride.
Multi-story feature films are not the happiest of genres (unevenness; multiple starts and ends; various directors with contrasting visions), but this collection about love, deception, the past and tragedy goes a long way to proving the cliché wrong, deftly defying the genre's usual deficits. The result feels as amazingly cohesive as it is relentlessly clever and entertaining. Each of the six stories here is thoroughly enthralling, and all are united by a mordant black humour as well as a singular film maker - the very clever Damián Szifrón. Connected thematically in dealing with revenge and retribution, each segment sets up expectations that its successor ingeniously fulfils or surpasses. This is an explosively funny film, made with great energy, a splendidly anarchic portrait of a world on the verge of a nervous breakdown. (Subtitles)
Argentina 2015 Damián Szifrón 122m
