Extraordinary Stories

Historias extraordinarias

Argentina

2008

245 Min

Color

Spanish, English

Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
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CAST Klaus Dietze, Mariano Llinás, Eduardo Iaccono, Héctor Díaz, Walter Jakob, Horacio Marassi, Agustín Mendilaharzu

ED Agustín Rolandelli, Alejo Moguillansky

SOUND Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño, Nicolas Torchinsky

BAFICI (Argentine Competition), Vancouver

Synopsis

Imbued with the spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson filtered through the sensibilities of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon, three unconnected, voiceover-narrated tales each starts off innocently enough and then veers into ever stranger, more fascinating realms: a labyrinth of side-steps and sub-plots, an “ocean of stories” revealing surprise after surprise: a murder, maps, monoliths, legends, betrayals, cover-ups, multiple identities, a disappeared treasure of gold, and much, much more. —Cinequest

Director

Mariano Llinás

Mariano Llinás was born in Buenos Aires in 1975 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Universidad del Cine, where he now teaches. After making many short films, he made his first feature, Balnearios (seen at BAFICI 2002), followed by the short La más bella niña, in 2004, and the feature El humor (pequeña enciclopedia ilustrada), co-directed with Ignacio Masllorens, in 2006. With his production company, El Pampero Cine, he produced El amor (primera parte) (BAFICI 2004) and Opus (BAFICI 2005, which he also co-wrote). His film, Historias Extraordinarias, was exhibited at the BAFICI 10º and was very well received by the public and critics. —artshound.com

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Ben

7Apr12

The four hours fly by. A wonderful film that at first seems to be about mysteries, conspiracies and assassins, instead reveals itself to be about something much more down to earth - the essentiality of human interaction and the boundless adventures and stories that lie everywhere around us. A movie that makes the fantastic ordinary and the mundane extraordinary. A real treat.

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Weaving Wave

1Apr12

Closest to the joy of reading and great as cinema

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Dry Bones

24Mar12

Cierto, nos recuerda al Stevenson de "New Arabian Nights" y "The Dynamiter". Y al Pynchon de "The Crying of Lot 49". El cine, entrando a saco en la literatura. ¿O será al contrario? Toda posibilidad cabe aquí, entre ríos, pastizales, caminos polvorientos, clubes hípicos abandonados, ciudades soñadas, el día, la noche y el crepúsculo de los caminantes...

Coheed 2.5

11Mar12

Three things spring to mind when viewing this. 1) This is the closest equivalent to Thomas Pychon’s novels in cinematic form I have seen yet. 2) Where is the DVD release in any English speaking country? 3) That this is an incredible, fun and thoughtful gem, about mysteries and the unrevealing of them, revealing also how we as human beings perceive the world around us, that stands out as unique and an accomplishment.