Tale of Tales (2015)

• Year: 2015
• Released: 22 Apr 2016
• Country: Italy, France, United Kingdom
• Adwords: 21 wins & 15 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3278330/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tale_of_tales
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tale-of-tales
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Russian
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
• Runtime: 134 min
• Writer: Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone
• Director: Matteo Garrone
• Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
• Keywords: witch, father daughter relationship, castle, mother son relationship, twins,

	6.4/10
	72/100
	83% – Critics
	56% – Audience

Tale of Tales Storyline

In a Kingdom, the Queen is sad in her marriage with the King since she cannot get pregnant. One day, a strange man offers an alternative that would depend on bravery and sacrifice: the King should kill a sea monster and take his heart out; a virgin should prepare the heart alone; and the Queen should eat it. Then she would be pregnant. Will it work? In another Kingdom, the libertine King overhears a voice of a woman singing in the village and he falls in love with the voice. However, the woman is Dora, who lives alone with her sister Imma, and both are old and ugly women. What can Dora do to avoid the King’s harassment? In another Kingdom, the King raises a giant flea and his daughter Violet that is reaching the age of getting married. When his flea dies, he shows its skin and promises the hand of Violet to the one that guess what the skin is. When an Ogre correctly responds the question, Violet shall move to the mountains with him. What will happen with the couple?

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Tale of Tales Movie Reviews

Refreshingly different with a danger of unsatisfaction.

This is an anthology of adult fairy tales. Rather than one after the other with a tie together the film opts for a more unusual parallel running of the three stories.

If I was to sum this up in one word I would say it is unorthodox. The characters and plots do not conform to the normal templates you would expect, either do the themes. The plots twist and turn like a path into a dark enchanted wood.

This film has excellent production, acting, script. There were more boobs, gore, rape and breast feeding than I was expecting but saying that, this film is not pornographic, disturbing or violent; a pretty safe watch.

The story lines keep you guessing as they have a life of their own. This is very refreshing but causes a satisfaction problem I also did not expect.

Consider this: Imagine you watch a film about a man planning to sail to Hawaii. You follow him as he builds his boat, saves up money, gets his sailors licence and an anchor tattoo. Then fifty minutes in, the boat burns down so he buy a plane ticket instead. If you think that sounds really annoying then you may want to give this a miss.

Very interesting, very different, well acted and produced. It keeps you on your toes the whole way. Don’t expect the pay-off to be too great or to head anywhere near you thought it would.

Three Dark and Weird Tales

“Il racconto dei racconti”, a.k.a. “Tale of Tales” is composed by three dark and weird entwined tales:

First: In a Kingdom, the Queen (Salma Hayek) is sad in her marriage with the King (John C. Reilly) since she cannot get pregnant. One day, a strange man offers an alternative that would depend on bravery and sacrifice: the King should kill a sea monster and take his heart out; a virgin should prepare the heart alone; and the Queen should eat it. Then she would be pregnant. Will it work?

Second: In another Kingdom, the libertine King (Vincent Cassel) overhears a voice of a woman singing in the village and he falls in love with the voice. However, the woman is Dora (Hayley Camichael), who lives alone with her sister Imma (Shiley Henderson), and both are old and ugly women. What can Dora do to avoid the King’s harassment?

Third: In another Kingdom, the King (Toby Jones) raises a giant flea and his daughter Violet (Bebe Cave) that is reaching the age of getting married. When his flea dies, he shows its skin and promises the hand of Violet to the one that guess what the skin is. When an Ogre (Guillaume Delaunay) correctly responds the question, Violet shall move to the mountains with him. What will happen with the couple?

The film is extremely dark and original without use of cliches, and the best tale if certainly Vicent Cassel’s one. The others are intriguing, but pointless. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): “O Conto dos Contos” (“The Tale of The Tales”)

Hollow

TALE OF TALES is a bizarre, sprawling, fantasy anthology that weaves three separate dark fairy tales into one unwieldy whole. It suffers from being overlong and averagely written, lacking interesting characters for the most part and getting by with familiar tropes rather than genuine insight or innovative scenes. Of the stories, there’s a brief one with John C. Reilly and Salma Hayek as unhappily married king and queen; a lengthy one about witch sisters looking for love; and a plain bizarre one in which Toby Jones nurtures a giant flea. Some of the effects and scenery look quite nice, but there’s a real hollowness to the storyline that lashings of sex and violence can’t hope to fill.