Les Nouveaux Sauvages

Les histoires "Audi vs. redneck" et "La femme enceinte renversée" sont des chefs-d'œuvre - la première par son atmosphère et sa créativité formelle, la seconde par ses dialogues et sa mise en scène mortelle d'une situation déjà infernale. La séquence de pré-générique est également fantastique, avec une transition inoubliable vers le titre du film. Les autres histoires sont bonnes, seule la dernière aurait pu être plus courte, elle s'embourbe par moments de façon inutile. Dans l'ensemble, c'est un mélange d'impressions et de formes, mais toujours suffisamment divertissant. Enfin, quelqu'un a réussi à filmer avec autant de justesse nos angoisses quotidiennes et nos désaccords avec le système. (23/07/2014)

C’étaient bel et bien des histoires sauvages ! Après un certain temps, je suis à nouveau allé voir un film dont je ne connaissais rien du contenu à l’avance. J’avais juste adoré l’affiche et entendu des échos positifs dans les festivals. Les six petites histoires évoluent à un rythme soutenu, ne sont pas ennuyeuses, divertissent et choquent légèrement. Trois d’entre elles sont excellentes et les trois autres sont vraiment top – celle qui se passe dans un avion, celle avec l’accident de la route et celle avec le mariage. Et c’est bien que celle avec le mariage occupe la dernière place. Puis, l’espagnol est une langue si belle ! (09/10/2014)

The calculated push for mischievous points forces the viewer to not take the creative effort too seriously. That’s quite a shame, considering that morally I only liked the engineering odyssey and that the wedding revelry offered everything that its predecessors didn't, i.e., above all, a twisted merry-go-round of absurdity that presents those cynical life messages with utter sovereignty and ease, as if life itself had written them. I can't help but think that the filmmakers were capable of more. (29/12/2014)

Probably the best movie entertainment of the year so far. Six stories packed black humour (and surprisingly brutal at times) with the common theme of the exasperation and the rage of ordinary people in ordinary situations that lead to situations that are not at all ordinary. The stories are uniform in terms of quality – of course, there are some that I liked less than others (the best for me were, redneck, the bomber engineer and the ruined wedding), but I wouldn’t say any of them is a significant drop in quality. If I had to complain about anything, is that some of the twists and turns were predictable a bit earlier than they should. A point less for that, but highly recommended nonetheless. (25/09/2014)

I didn’t really know what to expect from Wild Tales. A movie consisting of short stories usually has some interesting parts and some not so. But this movie has executed it perfectly. In my opinion, not one of those six short stories was mediocre, let alone bad. Some were prefect and some were “only” great. After I watched this movie, I realized that I have never watched a short-story movie that would already make me excited to see another story right after I’ve finished one, but Wild Tales have managed to do this with zero problems and won me over with each story. I liked the one where the two guys beat each other up by that bridge the most. I watched this for the Challenge Tour 2015. (09/04/2015)