the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino He has no problem talking about his favorite movies when he gets the chance, with not a few moviegoers looking forward to his best of the year lists. In 2013 something curious happened, since she had to correct her shortly after to clarify that her favorite was actually ‘Big Bad Wolves’, a surprising Israeli thriller that has just arrived on the Amazon Prime Video catalog.
Written and directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, ‘Big Bad Wolves’ tells the story of how a suspect in a terrible crime is kidnapped and tortured. On paper it may seem like a premise that we have already seen other times, but here we find an unusual approach that was undoubtedly what so conquered the director of ‘The Hateful Eight’.
For now, it is true that ‘Big Bad Wolves’ is a thriller above all else, but there is a strong presence of black humor that fits perfectly with the different surprise twists proposed by the script. To that we add a peculiar gallery of characters that complement each other and a reliable staging work to get fully into the story.
Also, Keshales and Papushado handle the shifting tone of the film quite well, something that in other hands could very well have destroyed their entire credibility. Eye there also to the good work of its cast, especially a very inspired Rotem Keinan, who moves in a masterful way at that exact intermediate point to sow doubt about whether or not he was responsible for what happened. Then it is true that ‘Big Bad Wolves’ is not a round work, but all its virtues more than compensate for its small weaknesses.
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