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

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING ALREADY SEEN

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Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable public figures of the 20th century. His work, personality, as well as his perennial fight against the horrible ALS deserved a decent movie script a long time ago. It finally got it, with „The theory of everything”, but nothing more than that.

Such a fascinating life story is compressed inside the two hours of numerous common places, with little exclusive and almost no controversial facts.

Luckily, male lead role is there to put it right, to some extent at least.

Young Eddie Redmayne literally twisted himself inside out for this one, reminiscing Daniel Day-Lewis’s Christy Brown in „My left foot”. Unfortunately, his effort isn’t matched by the supporting cast, raising serious questions about some of the five „Academy” nominations „Theory of everything” raised in this year’s race for the „golden boy”.

In the end, Eddie will be a major contender for the male lead title at the „Kodak” theatre, alongside phenomenal Keaton, but the rest of the flick falls behind significantly. And that’s a real shame.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING – 6/10