Tale of Tales (2015)
Directed by Matteo Garrone
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.
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Visually, Garrone cites Goya , Fellini and Mario Bava as key inspirations, in addition to which I spied traces of the magical realism of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth , the skin-peeling horror of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, and the ambiguous monsters of Wes Craven ’s The Hills Have Eyes , with just a touch of the bug-like weirdness of Vincenzo Natali’s Splice .
But the pessimism at the heart of "Tale of Tales" also gives it a connection with Garrone's earlier work — including his best-known picture, the ferociously gritty gangster drama "Gomorrah," which envisioned crime-riddled Naples as a seething hell on earth.
After “Gomorrah,” Matteo Garrone’s grittily authentic 2008 take on the Italian thug life — inspired by actual journalism — the filmmaker moved subtly away from verisimilitude.
Matteo Garrone is known for depicting real worlds, as he did with “Gomorrah,” a naked depiction of who and what the modern mafia are.
Tale of Tales is a departure for Garrone, best known for Gomorrah and Reality, winners of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2008 and 2013, respectively.
Tale of Tales, the latest film from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone, may have been inspired by fairytales, but is very much not for children.
Though the adaptations are not literal and you’ll be hard pressed to find moral lessons in these fantasies, the film is cinematic eye candy — not as spectacular as the more fanciful works of Terry Gilliam (“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, “The Brothers Grimm”), more on the order of Tarsem Singh (“The Fall”).