Well, this movie just landed on our list of most anticipated movies of the year, somewhere close to the top. The Tale of Tales is the latest from Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone, of Gomorrah fame, and it’s got a lot of ingredients we here at FSR find very appealing. One is John C. Reilly. Another is Salma Hayek munching on a raw dragon’s heart. Yeah, actually, that second one is probably our favorite thing of all, even if we didn’t know that until just now.
This fairy tale for adults will surely be likened to Game of Thrones a lot when it premieres in competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Dragons, check. Nudity, check. Blood and guts, check. Okay, so critics can skip that comparison, as it’s now been covered. What I would rather know, from those lucky enough to attend the fest, is what’s that creature in Toby Jones‘s bedroom? And why does everyone have to make Shirley Henderson look bad in movies?
Everything else seen in this teaser looks amazing, though, thanks to cinematography from Peter Suchitzky, who you should know as the DP of many David Cronenberg movies, including Naked Lunch, as well as The Empire Strikes Back, Krull and Jacques Demy’s Donovan-led movie of The Pied Piper — another strange take on a fairy tale. And everything heard, mostly just Faure’s “Pavane,” is pretty remarkable, too (I guess we’ll hear Alexandre Desplat’s score for the movie later).
The Tale of Tales is scripted by Garrone, Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti and Massimo Gaudioso and loosely based on the work of Giambattista Basile, whose book “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones” (aka “The Pentamerone”) features the earliest known versions of the stories “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Puss and Boots” and “Sleeping Beauty.”
The movie appears to consist of a few of Basile’s tales. There’s “The Enchanted Doe,” which would be the one with Reilly and Hayek as king and queen and the dragon’s heart, the consumption of which is to help them bear a child. And “The Flea,” which actually already explains the creature in the bedroom of the king played by Jones. I haven’t figured out which tale was used for the Vincent Cassel scenes yet.
"The Tale of Tales Trailer: Watch Salma Hayek Eat a Raw Dragon Heart" was originally published on Film School Rejects for our wonderful readers to enjoy. It is not intended to be reproduced on other websites. If you aren't reading this in your favorite RSS reader or on Film School Rejects, you're being bamboozled. We hope you'll come find us and enjoy the best articles about movies, television and culture right from the source.
0 comments:
Post a Comment