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Tale of Tales is a 2015 European fantasy horror film co-written, directed and co-produced by Matteo Garrone and starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C. Reilly. It is based on a collection of fairy tales by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, titled Pentamerone.
Tale of Tales: Directed by Matteo Garrone. With Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly. From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Matteo Garrone
- 2016-04-22
May 16, 2015 · The director, who chose just three of the dozens of stories from Basile, is hoping to later make a TV series encompassing further tales.
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The Enchanted Doe
In the Kingdom of Longtrellis, the King and Queen cannot conceive a child. A necromancersuggests that if the Queen eats a sea dragon's heart cooked by a virgin, she will be with child, but this will cost a life. The King slays the sea dragon but dies from his wounds. The Queen eats the heart and the next day bears a son, Elias, with hair as white as the dragon. The cook also gives birth to a boy, Jonah. The boys are identical and inseparable friends. This so vexes the Queen that she attempts...
The Flayed Old Lady
The lustful King of Strongcliff is intrigued by the sound of a woman's heavenly singing. He courts her outside her home, unaware that she is one of two elderly sisters, Imma and Dora. Dora agrees to spend the night with him as long as it is in complete darkness. He is horrified when he sees her appearance the next morning and has his guards throw her out of a cliffside window. She survives, entangled in the branches of a tree. A witchrescues her and nurses her from her breast. Dora awakens as...
The Flea
The King of Highhills becomes fascinated by a flea, which he hides in his room as a pet. It grows gigantic under his care. When it dies, the King decides to skin it. His daughter Violet tells him she wants to be married, so he offers her as a bride to whoever can guess from what beast the skin was taken, believing no one can do so. However, an ogrecorrectly identifies the hide by smell. Violet is horrified, but her father says he can not go back on his word. Violet goes through with the marri...
In an interview with Variety, director Matteo Garrone emphasized that the three tales have contemporary themes: "plastic surgery; the frenzied desire to have a child; the conflict between generations; the painful passage from adolescence to adulthood."He has also said that although the three stories have distinct themes, they are all connected to t...
Salma Hayek as Queen of LongtrellisDevelopment
According to Matteo Garrone, he was drawn to Giambattista Basile's stories for their mixture of the real and the unreal, and because he found the themes in many of them to still be highly relevant. Garrone had previously been best known for employing a naturalist style in films such as Gomorrah, but argued that all his previous films also have a fairytale aspect to their narratives. An important source of inspiration was Francisco Goya's Los caprichos collection of etchings. For Garrone, they...
Filming
Principal photography commenced on 15 May 2014 and lasted four months. The film was shot entirely on location in various parts of Italy, including Naples (Royal Palace, Palace of Capodimonte and its gardens); Apulia's Castel del Monte (octagonal castle appears in the poster near Vincent Cassel), Gioia del Colle (in particular the throne room), Laterza, Mottola, Statte; Sicily's Donnafugata Castle (gothic castle, stone labyrinth and gardens) and Gole dell'Alcantara in Alcantara (mainly scenes...
Critical reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 83% approval rating based on reviews from 10 critics, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Visually splendid and narratively satisfying, Tale of Tales packs an off-kilter wallop for mature viewers in search of something different." On Metacritic, the film has received a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Web site: Tale of Tales (2016) . . June 19, 2017.Web site: Tale of Tales Foreign Gross (2016) . . June 19, 2017.Web site: Tale of Tales Movie Review. 13 May 2015 . shockya.com.Web site: 2015 Official Selection . 16 April 2015 . Cannes.May 13, 2015 · Monty Python by way of Tim Burton and “The Princess Bride,” Italian director Matteo Garrone ‘s first English language feature “Tale of Tales” is a nutty compendium of outrageous fairy tales...
May 18, 2015 · Italian director Matteo Garrone is no stranger to Cannes. He picked up the Grand Prix twice for his previous films Gomorrah (2008), exploring the Camorra mafia, and Reality (2012), about society’s obsession with reality TV.
These fantastical tales span from the kingdom of Longtrellis where the king and queen have difficulty conceiving, to Highhills where the king becomes obsessed with taming a giant flea. Directed by Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Dogman).
