Mariano Llinás is one of the world’s most audacious directors—evidenced alone by his singular 14-hour epic La Flor. But his ambition was clear from the start, with this endlessly engrossing feature. A sensation in his home country of Argentina and finally available to own in the U.S., Extraordinary Stories plays out as a series of nested Borgesian narratives that zigzag across different characters, locations, and genres. Thick with incident and ironic twists, this novelistic 18-chapter experience refuses easy resolutions to its many mysterious tales but supplies satisfaction at every turn.
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES / HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS
A film by Mariano Llinás
(Argentina, 2008, 245 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Currently streaming on Projectr, Part I (83 min.), Part II (81 min.) and Part III (90 min.)
