Salma Hayek,Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones star in the Gomorrah director’s wonderful carnival of black-comic wrong taste based on 16th-century folk storiesFilm fantasy generally comes in two separate servings: either from what The Lego film called “Middle Zealand”, a Tolkien/GoT world of exotic and deadly serious myth for adults, and from the Disney-Pixar castle: hyperactive,super-smart animation for children. Through the simple fact of having a sense of humour, Matteo Garrone’s wonderful Tale of Tales is closer to the second model, or but where a Pixar film is fiercely focused on its younger audience with continual flicks of discreet sophistication for older consumers,Tale of Tales is for adults, with a perpetual undercurrent of childlike reverence for the bizarre events unfolding on screen. It’s fabulous in every sense.
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Source: theguardian.com