j,
24Mar12
i need to watch this tonight!
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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.
Dry Bones
25Mar12
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...
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ruby stevens
24Mar12
i didn't find it long and boring at all. i could've watched it for 4 more hours. and i'm not generally one for long ass films
Coheed 2.0
12Mar12
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.
Varun Anisetty
4Mar12
Very engaging though long and boring at times.Quite a great experience in the end.
Adam Cook
18Feb12
Everyone I'm following who has seen this film has rated it 5 out of 5. May this trend continue during the World Cup! http://mubi.com/lists/2012-mubi-world-cup
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twodeadmagpies
18Feb12
me too! apart from one mean mean person :P guys if i follow you and you rate it less than five i'm unfollowing you because i can't stand such disorder ;)
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Bleu Poster
12Feb12
Banality wrapped in mysteries wrapped in more mysteries, all wrapped in more banality. Wonderful.
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Francisco R.
7Feb12
A truly fascinating novelesque account of three stories that benefits from its compelling narration and its multilayered narrative and stylistic content, assuming at times forms of essays and documentaries adding only to the inmense appeal of the movie. The digressions involving female characters showcase the most insightful and tender narrations, evoking the skills of Eric Rohmer at the top of his game.
adrianmendizabal
25Jan12
That was a fun four hours of three stories interweave in an infinite web of possibilities, digressions, anecdotes, and consequential storytelling.
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Hydra Magazine
4Mar11
Film article on Hydra Magazine: http://www.thehydramag.com/2011/02/11/a-cinematic-novel-historias-extraordinarias/
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Erdiawan Putra
30Oct10
Historias Extraordinarias easily becomes one of my favorite films of it's decade. An unforgetable 4 hours of cinematic experience.
Chasing Butterflies
26Jun10
A monumental, magnificently playful and groundbreaking film! Mariano Llinas throws out most of the established paraphernalia of telling a story on screen while he conjures up a whole pantheon of writers from Cervantes, R.L. Stevenson, Poe and Borges, to Calvino, Marquez, Perec and Paul Auster, and he does it with an absolute audacity and authority. The experience of watching the film comes closer to that of reading a novel (more than any other film in recent history), and as an experiment in cinematic storytelling it ranks with two of the most ambitious and radical films of the last decade – Kiarostami’s Shirin and Weerasethakul’s The Mysterious Object At Noon. Llinas does it with a super-cool, ironic, intensely self-aware voiceover narration, with such flow and wit that the four-hour runtime whizzes by before you know it. The film harks back, in its own way, to Fernando Solanas’ The Journey in being both a road movie and an epic portrait of a magical country. The three main narrative strands intertwine, diverge, mirror and double each other to provide a sheer pleasure of the text. Considering that the film was made as a community film project of the film school where Llinas teaches, this is also guerilla filmmaking at its best! A must, must, must watch.
Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema
19Mar10
3.5 hours of PERFECTION out of 4 hours ain't bad at all. Just about the most original narrative film to have emerged last decade...
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