Io Capitano, Pinocchio, Tale Of Tales director Matteo Garrone with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I would say that fairy tales, as Italo Calvino used to say, fairy tales are true. It’s a different way to talk about the human condition.”
Italy’s Oscar submission and Venice Film Festival Unesco and Best Director Silver Lion winner Matteo Garrone’s suspenseful and fleet Io Capitano (Me Captain), co-written with Massimo Ceccherini (Garrone’s Pinocchio), Massimo Gaudioso, and Andrea Tagliaferri, shot by Paolo Carnera stars the naturalistic duo of Seydou Sarr (Marcello Mastroianni Award Best Young Actor) and Moustapha Fall with Ndeye Khady Sy, Oumar Diaw, Issaka Sawadogo.
Matteo Garrone on Io Capitano shot by Paolo Carnera: “Paolo put himself in the service of the story and he worked carefully on the light, but tried always to be natural, …”
Garrone’s Tale of Tales, based on Giambattista Basile’s early 17th century fairy tales,...
Italy’s Oscar submission and Venice Film Festival Unesco and Best Director Silver Lion winner Matteo Garrone’s suspenseful and fleet Io Capitano (Me Captain), co-written with Massimo Ceccherini (Garrone’s Pinocchio), Massimo Gaudioso, and Andrea Tagliaferri, shot by Paolo Carnera stars the naturalistic duo of Seydou Sarr (Marcello Mastroianni Award Best Young Actor) and Moustapha Fall with Ndeye Khady Sy, Oumar Diaw, Issaka Sawadogo.
Matteo Garrone on Io Capitano shot by Paolo Carnera: “Paolo put himself in the service of the story and he worked carefully on the light, but tried always to be natural, …”
Garrone’s Tale of Tales, based on Giambattista Basile’s early 17th century fairy tales,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
One of this week’s most notable new releases is Lionsgate’s big screen horror movie Cobweb, a horror fairy tale of sorts from first time feature film director Samuel Bodin. Bodin’s no stranger to the realm of violent fairy tales for adults; the filmmaker’s direction on Netflix’s Marianne unleashed no shortage of visceral scares unleashed from a fairy tale realm.
This week’s streaming picks center around horror fairy tales, whether they’re direct adaptations or inspired by them. All blend horror and fantasy to deliver cautionary bedtime tales.
Here’s where you can stream these horror fairy tales this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
The Company of Wolves – AMC+, Kanopy, Shudder
In Neil Jordan’s film, young Rosaleen falls asleep at her home and dreams of menacing wolves, many of which disguise themselves as men. All of which makes for...
This week’s streaming picks center around horror fairy tales, whether they’re direct adaptations or inspired by them. All blend horror and fantasy to deliver cautionary bedtime tales.
Here’s where you can stream these horror fairy tales this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
The Company of Wolves – AMC+, Kanopy, Shudder
In Neil Jordan’s film, young Rosaleen falls asleep at her home and dreams of menacing wolves, many of which disguise themselves as men. All of which makes for...
- 7/17/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
As a little girl, I loved watching "Cinderella." It wasn't the princess thing or the handsome prince who comes to save her that appealed to me. I liked the talking mice and birds who helped make her dress, her sparkly shoes, and the idea of a fairy godmother who could help a girl out of a crappy situation. Oh, and those very pretty dogs she gets at the end, which I remember more from the book that went along with the film.
It wasn't until years later that the whole idea of being rescued by a man/abusive treatment of a young woman/princess fantasy started to chafe. Ultimately, it doesn't matter why I liked it as a little kid. I just did, and I was hardly alone. The animated Disney film is considered a classic, despite the reexamination many of us have done over the decades since its release in 1950.
Over seven decades later,...
It wasn't until years later that the whole idea of being rescued by a man/abusive treatment of a young woman/princess fantasy started to chafe. Ultimately, it doesn't matter why I liked it as a little kid. I just did, and I was hardly alone. The animated Disney film is considered a classic, despite the reexamination many of us have done over the decades since its release in 1950.
Over seven decades later,...
- 1/8/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
The Cineteca di Bologna, which runs Il Cinema Ritrovato – the other major European event dedicated to heritage film alongside the Lumière Fest in Lyon – has announced a slate of upcoming releases to mark the centenaries of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Francesco Rosi.
These include Pasolini’s .”Uccellacci et Uccellini.” and “.Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo”. and Francesco Rosi’s .”C’era una Volta”.. Other notable works aiming for a 2022 release in time for the Cannes, Bologna and Lumière festivals include Vittorio de Sica’s Oscar-winning .Sciuscià..
The centenary is generating huge interest in Pasolini and the incredible modernity of his work,. Cineteca chief Gian Luca Farinelli told Variety. .”His films still surprise us, they haven’t aged, they were avant-garde in the ’60s and they still are today. These poets and writers turned to cinema and invented a whole new language, a new vision .like the gaze of a Renaissance painter. It...
These include Pasolini’s .”Uccellacci et Uccellini.” and “.Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo”. and Francesco Rosi’s .”C’era una Volta”.. Other notable works aiming for a 2022 release in time for the Cannes, Bologna and Lumière festivals include Vittorio de Sica’s Oscar-winning .Sciuscià..
The centenary is generating huge interest in Pasolini and the incredible modernity of his work,. Cineteca chief Gian Luca Farinelli told Variety. .”His films still surprise us, they haven’t aged, they were avant-garde in the ’60s and they still are today. These poets and writers turned to cinema and invented a whole new language, a new vision .like the gaze of a Renaissance painter. It...
- 10/16/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Five years ago, Italian auteur Matteo Garrone made his English-language debut with “Tale of Tales,” a bloody, imaginative take on Italian writer Giambattista Basile’s 17th century fairy tales. The movie featured exuberant turns from John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, and others. These days, Garrone regrets that decision.
“If I could go back, I would probably make ‘Tale of Tales’ with Italian actors,” he said in a recent phone interview. “I think it’s very important to keep the cultural identity of every country in its films. This was an Italian project, taken from one of the best books of Italian fairy tales. But it looked like I was taking other actors because we don’t have good actors in Italy. This is wrong.”
Now, Garrone is making up for that decision. With “Pinocchio,” he has adapted another definitive Italian fairy tale, this time with an all-Italian cast. Following its 2019 release in Italy,...
“If I could go back, I would probably make ‘Tale of Tales’ with Italian actors,” he said in a recent phone interview. “I think it’s very important to keep the cultural identity of every country in its films. This was an Italian project, taken from one of the best books of Italian fairy tales. But it looked like I was taking other actors because we don’t have good actors in Italy. This is wrong.”
Now, Garrone is making up for that decision. With “Pinocchio,” he has adapted another definitive Italian fairy tale, this time with an all-Italian cast. Following its 2019 release in Italy,...
- 12/24/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Directed by Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah), Tale of Tales was nominated for Cannes' prestigious Palm d'Or and many other awards, but does that make it a good film? I'm on the fence about this feature that follows the tales of three tales, all from 17th-century poet Giambattista Basile. These stories follow three kings, a princess, a prince, and one queen. The film is beautifully shot and the production, art, and costume design are all breathtaking. The acting is great, too, and it should be, as the caliber of stars such as John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and the like know what they're doing. But in terms of story, there's just that elusive something that feels missing. Sometimes I was engaged in the plot, other times, I didn't...
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- 9/6/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Now that September is finally underway, you can expect to see a lot of horror and sci-fi offerings making their way to Blu-ray and DVD from now until Halloween. This Tuesday, we have a handful of selections to look forward to, including a double dose of Hammer Films double features, Haunted Honeymoon (directed by and starring the late, great Gene Wilder), and a trio of new releases: The Neighbor, Tale of Tales, and The Ones Below.
Other notable home entertainment releases for September 6th include Supernatural: Season 11, The Flash: Season Two, The Dead Room, The Darkness, and Night of the Living Deb.
Hammer Films Double Feature: Revenge of Frankenstein & The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (Mill Creek Entertainment, Blu-ray)
For more than four decades, Hammer Films’ unique blend of horror, science fiction, thrills and comedy dominated countless drive-ins and movie theaters. Enjoy this impeccable collection from the darkest corners of the Hammer Imagination!
Other notable home entertainment releases for September 6th include Supernatural: Season 11, The Flash: Season Two, The Dead Room, The Darkness, and Night of the Living Deb.
Hammer Films Double Feature: Revenge of Frankenstein & The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (Mill Creek Entertainment, Blu-ray)
For more than four decades, Hammer Films’ unique blend of horror, science fiction, thrills and comedy dominated countless drive-ins and movie theaters. Enjoy this impeccable collection from the darkest corners of the Hammer Imagination!
- 9/5/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The fantasy horror film Tale of Tales, starring Salma Hayek, will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on September 6th. Also in today’s Highlights: Old 37 on ChillerTV, CryptTV’s partnership with Inkshares, a clip and poster from The House on Pine Street, and release details for Bb.
Tale of Tales Blu-ray / DVD Release Details: “A grim, gorgeous, grown-up fairytale full of princes and princesses, sorcerers and fairies, and monsters and ogres, the epic fantasy horror film Tale of Tales makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut September 6th, 2016, from Shout! Factory. Starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, and Shirley Henderson, Tale of Tales unleashes a barrage of mind-bogglingly exquisite and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the misadventures of three kings, based on stories of magic and the macabre by 17th-century folklorist Giambattista Basile.”
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Old 37 Airings on Chiller TV: Press Release: “August 23rd , 2016 – Old 37...
Tale of Tales Blu-ray / DVD Release Details: “A grim, gorgeous, grown-up fairytale full of princes and princesses, sorcerers and fairies, and monsters and ogres, the epic fantasy horror film Tale of Tales makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut September 6th, 2016, from Shout! Factory. Starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, and Shirley Henderson, Tale of Tales unleashes a barrage of mind-bogglingly exquisite and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the misadventures of three kings, based on stories of magic and the macabre by 17th-century folklorist Giambattista Basile.”
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Old 37 Airings on Chiller TV: Press Release: “August 23rd , 2016 – Old 37...
- 8/24/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
It's strange, it's different, and I can see why it wasn't a theatrical hit... but Matteo Garrone's superb telling of three very adult, very extreme 17th century folk tales is a special item, beautifully directed and visually splendid. Tale of Tales Blu-ray Shout! Factory 2016 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 133 min. / Street Date September 6, 2016 / 22.97 Starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Bebe Cave, Stacy Martin, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Laura Pizzirani, Franco Pistoni, Jessie Cave. Cinematography Peter Suschitzky Film Editor Marco Spoletini Production Design Dimitri Capuani Original Music Alexandre Desplat Written by Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso from a book by Giambattista Basile Produced by Matteo Garrone, Anne Labadie, Jean Labadie, Jeremy Thomas Directed by Matteo Garrone
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Matteo Garrone needs no more endorsement than a mention of his terrific modern gangster film Gomorrah (2008), an epic that makes the...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Matteo Garrone needs no more endorsement than a mention of his terrific modern gangster film Gomorrah (2008), an epic that makes the...
- 8/20/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
★★★★☆ Once upon a time, fairytales were folk tales. Then they became children's stories, were made into Disney cartoons and now star Angelina Jolie or Charlize Theron. Into the woods strides Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales, an anthology of 17th century folk tales by Giambattista Basile told with a verve and commitment to the strange. Best known for his neo-neo-realism with such films as the Naples based gangland drama Gomorrah (which showed in the Un Certain Regard sidebar in 2008) and Reality, which showed in competition in 2012, Tale of Tales is Garrone's first feature in English, but in a way the film is in an older language.
- 6/16/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The actor on her new film, a fairytale for adults, her creepy character in Happy Valley and feeling lost in drama school
Shirley Henderson, 50, has starred in numerous television, film and theatre productions, including Wonderland, Topsy-Turvy, Happy Valley, Southcliffe and Hamish Macbeth. She plays Jude in the Bridget Jones films, and Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter franchise. She studied drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and lives in Fife with her partner. Her new film, Tale of Tales, is directed by the Italian Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Reality) and also stars Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones. It’s based on a trio of Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile’s ancient fantasy morality tales, which predate the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. Henderson plays Imma, an old woman who yearns to be like her sister, Dora, who has been transformed by magic into a beautiful young maiden, who has beguiled the king.
Tale of Tales is Matteo Garrone’s first English-speaking film. How did you find working with him?
Fascinating. Obviously there’s a language barrier, but he knows enough. He doesn’t tell you too much until you begin, then he’s very clear about what he wants. It was an Italian set, and you think everybody’s shouting at you, but they’re not – it’s just a hyped-up atmosphere. He’s very exciting to work with and I’d jump at the chance again.
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Shirley Henderson, 50, has starred in numerous television, film and theatre productions, including Wonderland, Topsy-Turvy, Happy Valley, Southcliffe and Hamish Macbeth. She plays Jude in the Bridget Jones films, and Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter franchise. She studied drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and lives in Fife with her partner. Her new film, Tale of Tales, is directed by the Italian Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Reality) and also stars Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones. It’s based on a trio of Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile’s ancient fantasy morality tales, which predate the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. Henderson plays Imma, an old woman who yearns to be like her sister, Dora, who has been transformed by magic into a beautiful young maiden, who has beguiled the king.
Tale of Tales is Matteo Garrone’s first English-speaking film. How did you find working with him?
Fascinating. Obviously there’s a language barrier, but he knows enough. He doesn’t tell you too much until you begin, then he’s very clear about what he wants. It was an Italian set, and you think everybody’s shouting at you, but they’re not – it’s just a hyped-up atmosphere. He’s very exciting to work with and I’d jump at the chance again.
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- 6/12/2016
- by Interview by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
Italian director Matteo Garrone made his name with realist mob movie Gomorrah, but for his new film he turned to 17th century fairytales
An ogre snaps the necks of his victims and casts them aside like empty clam shells. A queen chomps messily on the scarlet heart of a sea monster. A sexually insatiable king finds an elderly woman in his bed and has her thrown out of the window and into the treetops without a second thought. As these vignettes suggest, the Italian phantasmagoria Tale of Tales is as different from a Hollywood fairy story like Snow White and the Huntsman as a snuff movie is from a perfume commercial. Fairytales in cinema have been earthy and sexual before, but they have never been rendered with quite the level of realism found in this sumptuous, grotesque adaptation of the 17th-century yarns of Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile.
Admired by the...
An ogre snaps the necks of his victims and casts them aside like empty clam shells. A queen chomps messily on the scarlet heart of a sea monster. A sexually insatiable king finds an elderly woman in his bed and has her thrown out of the window and into the treetops without a second thought. As these vignettes suggest, the Italian phantasmagoria Tale of Tales is as different from a Hollywood fairy story like Snow White and the Huntsman as a snuff movie is from a perfume commercial. Fairytales in cinema have been earthy and sexual before, but they have never been rendered with quite the level of realism found in this sumptuous, grotesque adaptation of the 17th-century yarns of Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile.
Admired by the...
- 6/11/2016
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Even though fairy tales themselves have often been dark throughout the years, the translation to film from book form has almost exclusively been directed towards young audiences. Occasionally we get more adult themed fairy tales, but they tend to be few and far between. Lost a bit in the Tribeca shuffle for me was the release last weekend of the new movie from Matteo Garrone, the fantasy film of sorts Tale of Tales. It’s a real unique flick, having debuted last year at the Cannes Film Festival before finally now in theatrical release, as of the weekend. It’s interesting enough that I wanted to make a quick mention of it, as it’s really something else. The film is, more or less, a collection of a few fairy tales, just given a different spin than usual. There’s three main ones, including the obsessive quest of the Queen...
- 4/26/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
These Predator Plushies from Kidrobot’s Predator Plush Phunny Collection don’t bleed and don’t have camouflaging abilities, but they are available now for purchase. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: a new clip from Tale of Tales starring Salma Hayek and a GoFundMe to help rebuild Yuya Ishikawa’s fire-damaged bar.
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Masked Predator: Nothing like the earth has seen before. Kidrobot’s Masked Predator Phunny is looking to fill its lust…for hugs! Grab one today and let the hunt begin!
Angry Predator: Angry Predator sees you and your fear. Kidrobot’s unmasked Angry Predator Phunny strikes fear with open mandibles! It’s protective of his prize…your hugs. Get one today or you’ll be in a world of hurt!
Dutch: If it bleeds, we can kill it.
- 4/25/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is based on the writings of 16th century author Giambattista Basile, who by most accounts compiled the first collection of fairy tales as we came to know them. If you think that the Brothers Grimm’s non-Disney-fied stories are dark, wait till you get a hold of Basile’s perverse accounts of doomed princesses, kings that set their wives on fire, and men who stab the women who they think betrayed them. More than stories about “fairies” and “happily ever after”, they’re cautionary tales about how unfair the world has always been for women who defy men. One wonders though, why would Garrone make a lavish, epic film about such injustices, without any sense of intention behind why he’s telling them.
The film essentially follows the misadventures of the members of three royal families. The first takes place in the kingdom of...
The film essentially follows the misadventures of the members of three royal families. The first takes place in the kingdom of...
- 4/22/2016
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
A film made of embroidered damask, blood, and the kind of magic one must suppress the urge to spell with a "k," Matteo Garrone's "Tale of Tales" marks an even greater sea change in approach than between his last two lauded, but wildly different titles: "Gomorrah" and "Reality." Based on the 17th century fairy stories of Giambattista Basile, which were simply the written-down versions of folktales that had existed for centuries prior, there is certainly a sense of age and ancient rot to the storytelling, as though this is just the latest time someone has whispered these weird tales of monsters and queens into another's ear, and the details will almost certainly be misheard and altered with the next airing. Just as a bell is not a bell until it's rung, these tales only really exist in the act of telling, and so Garrone's baroque, sumptuous take is, almost from conception,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Tale of Tales comes from director Matteo Garrone's who's Gomorrah and Reality were incredibly well received. From the goodwill following those films he's assembled a stellar cast to bring the early fairy tale work of Giambattista Basile to life.
Basille is chiefly remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales titled "Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille" ("The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones"). If you don't remember your parents telling you these ones, it's likely because they were a bit to... thematic.
Tale of Tales stars John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones among others.
Synopsis:
Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in th [Continued ...]...
Basille is chiefly remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales titled "Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille" ("The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones"). If you don't remember your parents telling you these ones, it's likely because they were a bit to... thematic.
Tale of Tales stars John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones among others.
Synopsis:
Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in th [Continued ...]...
- 3/23/2016
- QuietEarth.us
While Matteo Garrone's "Tale Of Tales" made a starry debut on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last spring, it didn't seem to bowl over critics. While we called it "engrossing and entertaining," we also noted it was more of an in-the-moment pleasure. Still, with this cast and what look to be some unforgettable visuals, the picture looks like one that's still worth tracking down. Read More: Cannes Review: Matteo Garrone's 'Tale Of Tales' With Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Vincent Cassel & More The latest from the director of "Gomorrah" is based on the 17th-century fairy stories of Giambattista Basile, with Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Vincent Cassel, Shirley Henderson, Stacy Martin and Toby Jones starring in the wildly fantastical film. Here's the official synopsis: Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in this breathtaking Baroque fantasy from the visionary director of Gomorrah.
- 3/23/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Click here to read our french "Tale Of Tales" movie review, directed by Matteo Garrone with Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones.Once upon a time there were three neighboring kingdoms each with a magnificent castle, from which ruled kings and queens, princes and princesses. One king was a fornicating libertine, another captivated by a strange animal, while one of the queens was obsessed by her wish for a child. Sorcerers and fairies, fearsome monsters, ogres and old washerwomen, acrobats and courtesans are the protagonists of this loose interpretation of the celebrated tales of Giambattista Basile....
- 6/29/2015
- www.ohmygore.com/
Click here to read our french "Tale Of Tales" movie review, directed by Matteo Garrone with Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones.Once upon a time there were three neighboring kingdoms each with a magnificent castle, from which ruled kings and queens, princes and princesses. One king was a fornicating libertine, another captivated by a strange animal, while one of the queens was obsessed by her wish for a child. Sorcerers and fairies, fearsome monsters, ogres and old washerwomen, acrobats and courtesans are the protagonists of this loose interpretation of the celebrated tales of Giambattista Basile....
- 6/29/2015
- www.ohmygore.com/
Exclusive: Competition trio among UK distributor’s haul.
Curzon Artificial Eye has rounded out its Cannes acquisitions with Competition entries Tale of Tales, Our Little Sister and Chronic as well as pre-buys of scripts from Palme d’Or-winning directors Cristian Mungiu and the Dardenne brothers.
Rights for all five films are for distribution in UK and Eire.
Matteo Garrone’s (Gomorrah) English-language debut Tale of Tales charts three of Giambattista Basile’s evocative Renaissance fairy tales with a cast including Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly. The deal was negotiated with HanWay.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s family-drama Our Little Sister follows three siblings who live in their grandmother’s home and the impact on their lives following the arrival of their 13-year-old half-sister.
In Michel Franco’s Chronic, Tim Roth gives a well-received performance as a home care nurse who works with terminally ill patients.
Both Our Little Sister and Chronic were picked up from...
Curzon Artificial Eye has rounded out its Cannes acquisitions with Competition entries Tale of Tales, Our Little Sister and Chronic as well as pre-buys of scripts from Palme d’Or-winning directors Cristian Mungiu and the Dardenne brothers.
Rights for all five films are for distribution in UK and Eire.
Matteo Garrone’s (Gomorrah) English-language debut Tale of Tales charts three of Giambattista Basile’s evocative Renaissance fairy tales with a cast including Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly. The deal was negotiated with HanWay.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s family-drama Our Little Sister follows three siblings who live in their grandmother’s home and the impact on their lives following the arrival of their 13-year-old half-sister.
In Michel Franco’s Chronic, Tim Roth gives a well-received performance as a home care nurse who works with terminally ill patients.
Both Our Little Sister and Chronic were picked up from...
- 6/11/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Surreal is just the tip of the iceberg.
The English trailer for the Cannes entry, The Tale of Tales, dropped on Wednesday and offered another look at the trippy movie. The film stars John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher, and Shirley Henderson. It is directed by Matteo Garrone.
The film is based on a 17th century collection of fairytales by Italian author Giambattista Basile, which play out across three different storylines.
It definitely looks ambitious and had some good and bad things being said about in when it played at Cannes recently. Right now, it is playing in Italy with a French and English release coming up.
The Tale of Tales is set to be released in the U.S. by IFC Films, but no date has been set.
The post Surreal fairytales make up the English trailer for ‘The Tale of Tales...
The English trailer for the Cannes entry, The Tale of Tales, dropped on Wednesday and offered another look at the trippy movie. The film stars John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher, and Shirley Henderson. It is directed by Matteo Garrone.
The film is based on a 17th century collection of fairytales by Italian author Giambattista Basile, which play out across three different storylines.
It definitely looks ambitious and had some good and bad things being said about in when it played at Cannes recently. Right now, it is playing in Italy with a French and English release coming up.
The Tale of Tales is set to be released in the U.S. by IFC Films, but no date has been set.
The post Surreal fairytales make up the English trailer for ‘The Tale of Tales...
- 6/4/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
All through the run up to the Cannes Film Festival, the promos for Matteo Garrone's "The Tale Of Tales" — which include eight clips and two trailers — were dubbed in Italian. But now that the movie is already playing on screens in Italy, it's gearing up to hit cinemas in France, and a new trailer has arrived in the film's original English language. An international cast that includes John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher, and Shirley Henderson feature in this fantastical film that's based on a 17th century collection of fairytales by Italian author Giambattista Basile which play out across three different storylines. It's an ambitious movie, and while it doesn't always work, Jessica Kiang wrote in her Cannes review that it's an "extravagant, rich, and often engrossing film." Read More: The Top 10 Films Of The 2015 Cannes Film Festival "The Tale Of Tales...
- 6/3/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
A live action movie adaptation of Boom! Studios' supernatural comic book series, Lumberjanes, is in the works. We also have details on Tale of Tales being acquired for U.S. distribution and a look at Fright Rags' T-shirt depiction of the Doof Warrior.
Lumberjanes Movie: According to TheWrap, Will Widger (who wrote the Black List screenplay, The Munchkin) is lined up to pen a live action feature film adaptation of the Lumberjanes comic book series for 20th Century Fox.
Producing the project are Boom! Studios' Ross Richie and Stephen Christy, with Adam Yoelin co-producing. The folks at 20th Century Fox have reportedly put the Lumberjanes film near the top of their priority list, so we could see this project move rather quickly along the path to the big screen.
A Boom! Studios comic book series that debuted last year, Lumberjanes has propelled past its original eight-part planned run, with its...
Lumberjanes Movie: According to TheWrap, Will Widger (who wrote the Black List screenplay, The Munchkin) is lined up to pen a live action feature film adaptation of the Lumberjanes comic book series for 20th Century Fox.
Producing the project are Boom! Studios' Ross Richie and Stephen Christy, with Adam Yoelin co-producing. The folks at 20th Century Fox have reportedly put the Lumberjanes film near the top of their priority list, so we could see this project move rather quickly along the path to the big screen.
A Boom! Studios comic book series that debuted last year, Lumberjanes has propelled past its original eight-part planned run, with its...
- 5/29/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The post-Cannes acquisitions trickle continues as IFC announced it has picked up Us rights from Hanway Films to Matteo Garrone’s Competition premiere.
Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C Reilly and Toby Jones star in Tale Of Tales, Garrone’s English-language gothic debut that weaves together several fairytales from the Middle Ages Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile.
Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Bebe Cave and Alba Rohrwacher also star.
Garrone co-adapted the screenplay with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
Jeremy Thomas produced with Jean Labadie and Garrone, while Alessio Lazzareschi, Peter Watson, Nicki Hattingh, Anne Sheehan and Sheryl Crown served as executive producers.
IFC’s Cannes acquisitions haul includes A Perfect Day, while sister label Sundance selects picked up Disorder and held rights to Palme d’Or winner Dheepan ahead of the festival.
Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C Reilly and Toby Jones star in Tale Of Tales, Garrone’s English-language gothic debut that weaves together several fairytales from the Middle Ages Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile.
Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Bebe Cave and Alba Rohrwacher also star.
Garrone co-adapted the screenplay with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
Jeremy Thomas produced with Jean Labadie and Garrone, while Alessio Lazzareschi, Peter Watson, Nicki Hattingh, Anne Sheehan and Sheryl Crown served as executive producers.
IFC’s Cannes acquisitions haul includes A Perfect Day, while sister label Sundance selects picked up Disorder and held rights to Palme d’Or winner Dheepan ahead of the festival.
- 5/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Cannes Bible Cannes always attracts the most glamorous people in the world. But the most adorable? This past week, the hands-down champ was Salma Hayek. The Mexican actress (and wife of billionaire François-Henri Pinault, owner of the luxury-goods conglomerate Kering) charmed the pants off the international press corps, with her candid remarks, earthy sense of humor, and frothy demeanor. Hayek was in town promoting "Tale of Tales," Matteo Garrone’s fantasmagoric adaptation of three stories from Giambattista Basile’s 17th century fairy tale collection "The Pentamerone," in which she eats the heart of a beast. Highlights from her roundtable discussion are below:Eating that enormous sea serpent heart almost made her vomit."I was really gagging. It was very demanding and the Italians were very stressed, and Garrone does so many takes and there were so many prop hearts. He wanted the heart inside to look exactly like a heart,...
- 5/25/2015
- by Stephen Garrett
- Indiewire
Salma Hayek rarely picks up her cell phone when the number is unlisted. But one day she did so while driving around Los Angeles, and the man on the other end was Italian director Matteo Garrone. Having been introduced to modern Italian cinema by her friend Valeria Golina, Hayek was flabbergasted. Garrone’s films Gomorrah and Reality were two of her favorite recent pictures. Not only that, but Garrone was offering her the role in a period film bringing to life the tales of 17th century Neapolitan scribe Giambattista Basile. She would play the role of a Spanish queen, the film would […]...
- 5/22/2015
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Salma Hayek rarely picks up her cell phone when the number is unlisted. But one day she did so while driving around Los Angeles, and the man on the other end was Italian director Matteo Garrone. Having been introduced to modern Italian cinema by her friend Valeria Golina, Hayek was flabbergasted. Garrone’s films Gomorrah and Reality were two of her favorite recent pictures. Not only that, but Garrone was offering her the role in a period film bringing to life the tales of 17th century Neapolitan scribe Giambattista Basile. She would play the role of a Spanish queen, the film would […]...
- 5/22/2015
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
He’s played a troubled youth in the Paris ghettos in La Haine, a vengeful husband in Irreversible, and an abusive ballet company director in Black Swan. One pattern is clear with French actor Vincent Cassel: he works with directors of a special breed who can’t be boxed up neatly within a genre. His latest Cannes film is no exception. Cassel partnered with Italian director Matteo Garrone to play the role of a casanova Medieval king who’s always on the search for his next sexual conquest in Tale of Tales. Based upon the stories of Giambattista Basile, Europe’s original fairytale scribe, […]...
- 5/22/2015
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
He’s played a troubled youth in the Paris ghettos in La Haine, a vengeful husband in Irreversible, and an abusive ballet company director in Black Swan. One pattern is clear with French actor Vincent Cassel: he works with directors of a special breed who can’t be boxed up neatly within a genre. His latest Cannes film is no exception. Cassel partnered with Italian director Matteo Garrone to play the role of a casanova Medieval king who’s always on the search for his next sexual conquest in Tale of Tales. Based upon the stories of Giambattista Basile, Europe’s original fairytale scribe, […]...
- 5/22/2015
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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. With his third film in competition, Garrone has once again completely switched gears, debuting his first period piece and his first film shot in English, Tale of Tales. Based on the fairytales of Giambattista Basile, the film has been the buzz of Cannes with its rich storytelling, outstanding performances, and lush cinematography. Going back to the raw and oftentimes brutal storytelling of early fairytales (Basile’s […]...
- 5/18/2015
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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. With his third film in competition, Garrone has once again completely switched gears, debuting his first period piece and his first film shot in English, Tale of Tales. Based on the fairytales of Giambattista Basile, the film has been the buzz of Cannes with its rich storytelling, outstanding performances, and lush cinematography. Going back to the raw and oftentimes brutal storytelling of early fairytales (Basile’s […]...
- 5/18/2015
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
That Salma Hayek eats the heart of a sea monster in her new Cannes movie, Matteo Garrone's The Tale of Tales, isn't a secret. It's in the trailer, and as Vulture Kyle has pointed out, it's hardly the only insane thing that happens in the movie, which is based on a 17th-century collection of fairy tales by Giambattista Basile. (Hayek's character eats the heart because she's desperate for a child, becomes pregnant instantly, then gives birth to an albino.) But what everyone at yesterday's press conference wanted to know was, what the hell did that heart taste like? "Dis-guuusting!" said Hayek. "No, we have to talk about this," she told the room. "Our director here wanted the heart to be inside a heart identical to the real heart. It's not just the outside that was perfect. He needed inside all the exact parts. God forbid that I took a...
- 5/15/2015
- by Jada Yuan
- Vulture
"Lurid, lush, and ludicrous," Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales with Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly "works from Giambattista Basile’s 17th century collection of fairy tales of the same name," notes Blake Williams. David Jenkins suggests it's "a gaudy, bawdy descendent to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s trilogy of life." And the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw sees traces of Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales. "But there’s also a bit of John Boorman’s Excalibur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blackadder, The Company of Wolves, the Tenniel illustrations for Alice in Wonderland… and Shrek." We've got more reviews and clips. » - David Hudson...
- 5/14/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Lurid, lush, and ludicrous," Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales with Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly "works from Giambattista Basile’s 17th century collection of fairy tales of the same name," notes Blake Williams. David Jenkins suggests it's "a gaudy, bawdy descendent to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s trilogy of life." And the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw sees traces of Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales. "But there’s also a bit of John Boorman’s Excalibur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blackadder, The Company of Wolves, the Tenniel illustrations for Alice in Wonderland… and Shrek." We've got more reviews and clips. » - David Hudson...
- 5/14/2015
- Keyframe
While I cannot say the festival has started for me with the searing acuteness found day one in Cannes last year with Timbuktu, with Hirokazu Kore-eda's Our Little Sister the tone of my first full day on the Croisette instead began with the Japanese director's particular sensibility of refined, humane warmth and a complete absence of desire to impress.A wonderful concept centers this picture and called back to me small memories of a Mikio Naruse film I loved long ago, Older Brother, Younger Sister (speaking now of Japanese masters, Our Little Sister also contains a poignant reference to Ozu's The End of Summer). Three single women, not young but also not middle-aged, sisters from their father's first of three marriages, adopt their teenage half-sister after his death strands her between his first and last broken family. So we get a kind of enclave or community of sisterhood, discreet,...
- 5/14/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Cannes — Once upon a time there were fairy tales that were strange and horrific. Fairy tales that were meant to entertain and to enlighten. Fairy tales that weren't just meant for young children. Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone takes you back to that time with "Tale of Tales," his loose adaptation of Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones," which screened Wednesday night at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The result is a slightly bumpy two hours of storytelling, but it's peppered with wonder and unexpected humor. Best known for his critically acclaimed thriller "Gomorrah," Garrone has fashioned a lose narrative around three nearby kingdoms in Basile's tales. The main story, if there is one, centers on a distraught, barren Queen (Salma Hayek) who's husband, the King of Longtrellis (John C. Reilly), makes a deal with a mysterious charlatan (Franco Pistoni) in order to get her pregnant.
- 5/14/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Read More: Cannes: Matteo Garrone's 'Tale of Tales' Review and Roundup 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 unfolding within the constraints of a single unseemly kingdom. Although wobbly in parts like so many cinematic anthologies, 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. Garrone's bizarre narrative incorporates four overlapping stories in a kingdom filled with the usual ensemble of mythological beasts, magical powers and royal schemes. While every sequence goes to certain outrageous extremes — plot twists include the consumption of a giant sea monster's heart and the nurturing of a dog-sized flea — Garrone cuts between them with a fluid approach that successfully conveys the...
- 5/14/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Il Racconto dei Racconti (Tale of Tales)
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Written by Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso
Italy & UK, 2015
The temptation of making it big internationally must have been too strong for Matteo Garrone to resist and two films later, the filmmaker who charmed Cannes with the Neapolitan lilt of Gomorra is back in competition with an incongruous fairy-tale offering teeming with midgets, unidentified beasts and an ogre.
Based on the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile, the seventeenth-century inventor of Cinderella, “The Tale” recounts the regal travails of three grotesque feudal lords in medieval Italy, speaking in various accents of English as you do when you are a medieval Italian feudal lord. Garrone’s production, no doubt betting on the international cachet of some of the cast such as Selma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and John C. Reilly, goes the magical surrealism route, throwing in some beautiful princesses and misshapen old hags,...
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Written by Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso
Italy & UK, 2015
The temptation of making it big internationally must have been too strong for Matteo Garrone to resist and two films later, the filmmaker who charmed Cannes with the Neapolitan lilt of Gomorra is back in competition with an incongruous fairy-tale offering teeming with midgets, unidentified beasts and an ogre.
Based on the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile, the seventeenth-century inventor of Cinderella, “The Tale” recounts the regal travails of three grotesque feudal lords in medieval Italy, speaking in various accents of English as you do when you are a medieval Italian feudal lord. Garrone’s production, no doubt betting on the international cachet of some of the cast such as Selma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and John C. Reilly, goes the magical surrealism route, throwing in some beautiful princesses and misshapen old hags,...
- 5/14/2015
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Drawing on the rich and till-now unexplored vein of Neapolitan fairy tales written by Giambattista Basile in the early 17th century, Tale of Tales combines the wildly imaginative world of kings, queens and ogres with the kind of lush production values Italian cinema was once famous for. 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. Starring Salma Hayek as a childless queen who is willing to do anything – absolutely anything –
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- 5/13/2015
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A film made of embroidered damask, blood, and the kind of magic one must suppress the urge to spell with a "k," Matteo Garrone's "Tale of Tales" marks an even greater sea change in approach than between his last two lauded, but wildly different titles: "Gomorrah" and "Reality." Based on the 17th century fairy stories of Giambattista Basile, which were simply the written-down versions of folktales that had existed for centuries prior, there is certainly a sense of age and ancient rot to the storytelling, as though this is just the latest time someone has whispered these weird tales of monsters and queens into another's ear, and the details will almost certainly be misheard and altered with the next airing. Just as a bell is not a bell until it's rung, these tales only really exist in the act of telling, and so Garrone's baroque, sumptuous take is, almost from conception,...
- 5/13/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Cannes already has a standout movie: the horrific new Renaissance fairytale from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone. Features scenes of flea-petting, heart-eating and a right royal nightmare
Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile – Garrone worked on the adaptation with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent. The sort of film, in fact, which is the whole point of Cannes. It immerses you in a complete created world.
Ovid is mulched in with Hansel, Gretel, the Beauty, the Beast, the Prince, the Pauper, in no real order. At times, Garrone seemed to have taken inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni’s own fabular tale The Mystery of Oberwald – at others, it felt like he had deeply inhaled the strange and unwholesome odour still emanating from Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales. But there’s also a bit of John Boorman’s Excalibur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blackadder, The Company of Wolves, the Tenniel illustrations for Alice in Wonderland… and Shrek.
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Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile – Garrone worked on the adaptation with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent. The sort of film, in fact, which is the whole point of Cannes. It immerses you in a complete created world.
Ovid is mulched in with Hansel, Gretel, the Beauty, the Beast, the Prince, the Pauper, in no real order. At times, Garrone seemed to have taken inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni’s own fabular tale The Mystery of Oberwald – at others, it felt like he had deeply inhaled the strange and unwholesome odour still emanating from Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales. But there’s also a bit of John Boorman’s Excalibur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blackadder, The Company of Wolves, the Tenniel illustrations for Alice in Wonderland… and Shrek.
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- 5/13/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Cannes already has a standout movie: the horrific new Renaissance fairytale from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone. Features scenes of flea-petting, heart-eating and a right royal hag-shagger
Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile – Garrone worked on the adaptation with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent. The sort of film, in fact, which is the whole point of Cannes. It immerses you in a complete created world.
Ovid is mulched in with Hansel, Gretel, the Beauty, the Beast, the Prince, the Pauper, in no real order. At times, Garrone seemed to have taken inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni’s own fabular tale The Mystery of Oberwald – at others, it felt like he had...
Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile – Garrone worked on the adaptation with Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso.
It is gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful: erotic, hilarious and internally consistent. The sort of film, in fact, which is the whole point of Cannes. It immerses you in a complete created world.
Ovid is mulched in with Hansel, Gretel, the Beauty, the Beast, the Prince, the Pauper, in no real order. At times, Garrone seemed to have taken inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni’s own fabular tale The Mystery of Oberwald – at others, it felt like he had...
- 5/13/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Title: Tale of Tales Director: Matteo Garrone Starring: Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Alba Rohrwacher, Massimo Ceccherini, Laura Pizzirani, Franco Pistoni, Giselda Volodi, Giuseppina Cervizzi, Jessie Cave, Toby Jones, Bebe Cave, Guillaume Delaunay, Eric Maclennan, Nicola Sloane, Vincenzo Nemolato, Giulio Beranek, Davide Campagna, Vincent Cassel, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Stacy Martin, Kathryn Hunter, Ryan McParland, Kenneth Collard, Renato Scarpa. Kings, princesses, monsters, ogres, dark fairytales drenched with curses and magic that comes with a price, populate Matteo Garrone’s new cinematic endeavour, through the screen adaptation of a seventeenth-century collections of tales by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile: ‘Lo cunto de li cunti’ (Pentamerone), i.e. ‘Tale [ Read More ]
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- 5/13/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Matteo Garrone wowed us with Gamorrah in 2008 and, personally, left me wanting with Reality in 2012, but now he's back at Cannes with his latest movie, The Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti), based on the 17th century Italian author Giambattista Basile's collection of fairy tales. 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. A pair of new pictures from the movie have just arrived and I've included them in full just below along with the previously released, not safe for work first trailer. sb id="1513159" height="360" width="640"...
- 5/11/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Whatever Matteo Garrone is cooking up for Cannes, it certainly looks to be the most visually ambitious effort yet by the filmmaker behind "Reality" and "Gomorrah." And today brings another intriguing peek at his next effort, one that will surely provide a memorable experience for those on the Croisette. Starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini, the film is a loose screen adaptation of the fairy tales by Italian poet Giambattista Basile. And indeed, Garrone makes the most of the canvas he gets to play with here, with arresting imagery among these pics. And we're curious to see how they all coalesce in the final film. "The Tale Of Tales" opens in Italy on May 14th. There's no U.S. distribution yet. Check out the new TV spots and images below.
- 5/8/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Celebrated Italian filmmaker Matteo Garone (Gomorrah) returns to Cannes this May with The Tale of Tales, his self-described “fantasy film with horror elements” starring Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek, Toby Jones and John C. Reilly. Based on a 17th century collection of fairy tales by author Giambattista Basile—many collected in their earliest, darkest iterations—The Tale of…
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- 4/24/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
The latest from Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) is based on the early fairy tales of Giambattista Basile.
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- 4/22/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
With the onset of spring comes one of the biggest events on the film industry calendar – The Cannes Film Festival. The annual event will welcome jetsetters from across the globe this May as filmmakers, producers and actors descend upon the French town to raise the profiles of their current projects. And one distributor is buttering up crowds before the chaos begins, as La Pacte has dropped the first teaser for its bloody fantasy outing, The Tale Of Tales.
Previous Cannes award-winner Matthew Garone is behind the camera on this one, after scoring two Cannes Grand Jury Prizes for his homespun movies Gomorra and Reality. His newest offering, a fantastical weaving of three stories, is adapted from a series of 17th century fairy tales penned by Italian writer Giambattista Basile. And judging by the dark, very-nsfw imagery displayed here in this initial teaser, it’d be a pleasant surprise to see...
Previous Cannes award-winner Matthew Garone is behind the camera on this one, after scoring two Cannes Grand Jury Prizes for his homespun movies Gomorra and Reality. His newest offering, a fantastical weaving of three stories, is adapted from a series of 17th century fairy tales penned by Italian writer Giambattista Basile. And judging by the dark, very-nsfw imagery displayed here in this initial teaser, it’d be a pleasant surprise to see...
- 4/20/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
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Fairy tales have some of the most vivid imagery of monsters and magic and are certainly some of the most violent stories around. Why they are not crafted for an adult audience more often is beyond me. Terry Gilliam lives in this world comfortably for sure, but guys, this is something else entirely and I'm so excited about this film.
Tale of Tales comes from director Matteo Garrone's who's Gomorrah and Reality were incredibly well received. From that goodwill he's assembled a stellar cast to bring the work of Giambattista Basile to life.
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Fairy tales have some of the most vivid imagery of monsters and magic and are certainly some of the most violent stories around. Why they are not crafted for an adult audience more often is beyond me. Terry Gilliam lives in this world comfortably for sure, but guys, this is something else entirely and I'm so excited about this film.
Tale of Tales comes from director Matteo Garrone's who's Gomorrah and Reality were incredibly well received. From that goodwill he's assembled a stellar cast to bring the work of Giambattista Basile to life.
Basille is [Continued ...]...
- 4/20/2015
- QuietEarth.us
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