EXTRAORDINARY STORIES

A film by Mariano Llinás
2008, 252 minutes
No. 286
Narrative


EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
$375.00
Description
Imbued with the spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson and filtered through the sensibilities of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon, three unconnected, voiceover-narrated tales each start off innocently enough and then veer into ever stranger, more fascinating realms.

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore. In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.


Festivals
Official Selection, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival
Official Selection, Los Angeles Film Festival

Reviews
"While the pic was made on a low budget even by Argentine standards, with a small crew and the support of only Argentina’s Universad del Cine, the final impact is of a big movie nearly bursting at the seams.'' - Robert Koehler, Variety

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