Matteo Garrone wowed us with Gamorrah in 2008 and, personally, left me wanting with Reality in 2012, but now he’s back at Cannes with his latest movie, The Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti), based on the 17th century Italian author Giambattista Basile’s collection of fairy tales.
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.
A pair of new pictures from the movie have just arrived and I’ve included them in full just below along with the previously released, not safe for work first trailer.
