The BFI and Curzon cinemas have added viewer warnings to their home cinema listings of Wild Tales, thanks to the film’s eerie similarity to the Germanwings plane crash.
One of the portmanteau film’s six storylines concerns a man who tricks various people from his life who he feels wronged by – including former employers, classmates and teachers – on to a plane, before locking himself in the cockpit and crashing it. In the Germanwings incident last week, the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz similarly locked himself in and deliberately crashed the plane into a mountain in the French Alps.
As of last weekend, Curzon is now warning viewers: “Following the Germanwings flight incident on Tuesday 24th March, please be aware that Wild Tales features a sequence that some customers might find disturbing.” The BFI has meanwhile written: “Please note: Wild Tales is a work of fiction, and any similarities with real events is an unintentional and regrettable coincidence.”
Cinemas are also posting warnings ahead of the film:
so tonight I had to make a speech before screening Wild Tales warning people of the opening scene's uncanny similarities to the #A320Crash.
— serena braida (@serenabraida) March 28, 2015
The similarities between the two have been noticed by various viewers on Twitter, with some even wondering if Lubitz saw the film.
Wild Tales, directed by Argentinian film-maker Damián Szifrón, was nominated for best foreign language film at this year’s Oscars, and produced by Pedro Almodóvar. Dario Grandinetti, one of the actors in the plane crash storyline, will appear in Almodóvar’s next film Silencio.
