Tale of Tales (2015)
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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Tale Of Tales: Very Grimm Tales! Got darker as the film developed. An Ogre, Giant Flea, Sea Monster, Shape Shifter and more. Set in Medieval Italy but anachronisms abound: 18th century muskets, llamas, 19th century diving suit - 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea style. John C. Reilly dons the Vernian diving suit to hunt a Sea Monster. 8/10http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3278330/
John C. Reilly was an exceptionally horrible acting choice and his accent (or rather, lack of) made my hopes for this film go from a 5 to a 0.
Great visually but the three stories blow. Fairy tales have a lesson to teach and these all seem to be lacking full development. Over an hour of my time wasted and I will never get it back. Watch something else. This makes me question the validity of user reviews on imdb. Never trust long winded reviews by film critic wanna bee's from now on. I will trust the regular folks reviews.
First thing, this is not a movie everyone will enjoy. If you see the label fantasy and think it will be like Lord of the Rings, you are way off, and probably will be disappointed. It is definitely a fantasy but it is more like Pan's Labyrinth, but not really either. The best I can put it, it's different.Somewhat based on the Giambattista Basile's (I hadn't heard of him before either, but kind of interesting to look up) collection of fairytales. The movie therefore has several different subplots, very lossely connected (i.e. not at all really more than that the characters meet sometimes).The movie is no stranger to either nudity, sex or gore but it is not the highlights of the movie it all. It is just... there. The movie is more about different kinds of obsession. The pace of the movie is slow (sometimes refreshingly so) and not everything is explained. A lot of the stories you got to figure out yourselves, and somethings are never resolved. A movie fun to watch if you want to test something outside the mainstream blockbuster cinema.