TOO ARTIFICIAL

Jafar Panahi is one of the leading Iranian movie directors, especially when it comes to Western audience, hooked on the fact that he was banned from making movies by the satanised local government.

To fight this unjust ban, he decides to pose as a taxi driver and make a omnibus documentary about the social problems in modern Iran. He does it hastly, incoherently and above all, unconvicingly.

There are a lot of better Iranian movies about the social problems in that country than „Taxi Tehran”. Also, there are a lot of better Iranian movies than „Taxi Tehran”. A lot.

TAXI TEHRAN - 3/10

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DARK, BUT HILARIOUS

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Argentinian runner for this year's best foreign language ”Oscar” is an omnibus of different tales based on the crimes from passion that differ in length and quality, but are joined together present one dark and cynical comedy. Some of the stories are just plain heavy (battle on the highway, hit and run) while the others are hilarious (towed cars, wedding).

Almost every significant Argentinian actor is there, led by the Ricardo Darin and each and every one of them gives their small contribution to the film as a whole.

Overall, ”Wild tales” is one of the finest representatives of quality Argentinian dark comedy.

WILD TALES - 8/10