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The Tale of Tales

Il racconto dei racconti (The Tale of Tales)

2015

Matteo Garrone

Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly ...

5.6

3,231

Drama. Fantasy The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and will interweave three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini will play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek will play a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The result is a dreamy, fresh take on the kind of dark and gory yarns that have come down to us from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, only here they're pleasingly new and unfamiliar."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Garrone's alternately silly and entrancing adaptation of Giambattista Basile's Neapolitan stories provides a welcome gothic antidote to more stately treatments of similar material."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"One can’t help be reminded of Pasolini’s 'Trilogy of Life' with such a project, and though the material is tamer (...) and less poetic, Garrone’s technique runs circles around that of his predecessor."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"'Tale of Tales' might lack magic in the immediate, flashy sense, but its strange spell is altogether seductive and special. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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