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Watch: Il racconto dei racconti 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 28,969
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1491 Popularity: 16.779 | TMDB

Reviews:

Visually striking, but ultimately uninspiring
The royal court roars with laughter. A group of jesters grin and jeer at one another, do cartwheels, breathe fire. In the midst of all this mirth, the Queen sits sad and silent on her throne. Her eyes fall on one of the players and suddenly she runs off, distraught. The King chases after her, shouting that he is sorry, that he did not know. His apologies fall on deaf ears.

So begins Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s visually striking, but ultimately uninspiring adaptation of the Pentamerone, a book of Italian folk stories collected in the 17th century.The film cuts between three separate narrative strands, linked together by the unifying theme of all-consuming obsession. One tale centres around a monarch mad with lust, and two crones in his kingdom who desire only to be young again. Another depicts a woman who will do anything for motherhood. The third tale introduces us to a king’s unhealthy fascination with a flea, and an ogre unable to set free his reluctant and unhappy bride.

Fairy tales these may be, but their delightfully disturbing content ensures that they are not meant for children. (At least by modern, if not by 17th century standards – the Pentamerone, just as full of sex and violence as Garrone’s 15 rated film, was subtitled ‘Entertainment for Little Ones’). Yet even though Tale of Tales is too graphic and gruesome for kids and is clearly aimed at older audiences, it remains too childishly straightforward to be captivating. I would have needed either more nuance or more mystery and suggestion for the film to draw me in and immerse me in its world. There are, for instance, scenes where characters morph into a different physical shape. Had these transformations remained unexplained by the narrative they would have evoked a sense of wonder and significance, like visual poems hinting at some elusive but compelling underlying idea. Instead, the characters transform because a magician cast a spell, and there is nothing to think about. It is the kind of simple cause and effect storytelling with a clear moral – for all three narrative strands put forward the idea that ‘obsession is not good for you’ – which works so well for children’s stories, but is too obvious to really interest adults.

To be fair, it was never Garrone’s intention to prompt intellectual engagement with Tale of Tales. ‘Don’t try to understand it. Just feel it, like when you are standing in front of a painting. Follow the characters, take the journey, feel the emotion,’ the director said in a Guardian interview. But the characters are too one-dimensional to seem real, and I found it hard to care about their lives or fates. They also speak far too much to function well as figures onto whom one can project emotion, like when one is standing in front of a painting. It should have been show not tell, with the camera lingering on the characters’ facial expressions, and allowing spectators to empathise and identify with them. Instead, feelings, from love to longing, are spoken – ‘He’s like a brother to me’, ‘I want to be young again’ – and the action moves forward.

Less would have been more, with Tale of Tales. The power of the film lies in its visuals, which are beguiling, gorgeous and grotesque. The dialogues and narrative explanations serve only to trivialise the images, lessening the overall effect of the film. The trailer for Tale of Tales, a succession of visuals set to nothing but music,is better than the film itself.

A reminder of how fairy stories used to be
This is such a wonderful film for so many reasons. A collection of fairy stories that seem almost familiar to us, shades of the Prince and the pauper, beauty and the beast, Cinderella most prominent but Disney this isn’t. Garrone subverts our expectations of the “happy ever after” scenario but not for the sake of the unexpected twist, nor for the sake of “realism”, for there is nothing real or everyday here, but rather he reminds us of how our familiar tales began, in a world where cruelty was an everyday event and even tales for children could be brutal in a strangely matter of fact way. There is horror but it is almost understated and deliberately misplaced. The monsters are kind (in there own way) and it is the victims that visit horror upon themselves and others. But there is so much more to this film. The tale of the Queen who wants a child serves as an allegory for the sacrifices parents make for their children and is perhaps the weakest of the tales. The battle with a sea monster could not be described as dynamic, yet the dream like conflict, often obscured by murky water and a poor visor, has a strange tension that fits with the surreal nature of the film where giant fleas and other creatures are offered up with no more explanation than one would need to explain why some one owned a dog or the roaming of a cat. The tale of the two sisters explores the nature of desire and the emphasis placed on beauty often to the detriment of our health. A chance remark results in a terrible decision and yet this is perhaps the most light-hearted of the tales. But for me the tale with the Princess and the ogre is the most powerful as it documents a most shocking loss of innocence, especially in the contrast between the princess in the beginning and end scenes. How far from being a child has she travelled? How much has she grown or fallen. All this is made better by the casting of actors and actresses who are, for lack of a better term, ordinary. Not ugly or strange (though there are a few) but people whom one might meet. Salma Hayek stands out as the great beauty of the film but Bebe Cave is mesmerizing as princess Violet. And my heart went out to Shirley Henderson as the tragic Imma. It goes without saying that the sets and costumes are sumptuous, recalling Peter Greenway films, as are the locations.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 2 hr 14 min (134 min)
Budget 12000000
Revenue 5500277
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director Matteo Garrone
Writer Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone
Actors Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
Country Italy, France, United Kingdom
Awards 21 wins & 15 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema