With The Tale of Tales and it’s not safe for work.
Filled with fantastical elements and an image of Salma Hayek appearing to chow down on the raw heart of some fantasy beast, the film is based on the fairy tale collection “The Tale of Tales” by 17th century Italian author Giambattista Basile. This serves as Garrone’s ambitious English-language debut, interweaving three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini play a street circus family.
In one tale Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband’s life and in another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
Check out the trailer below. [via The Playlist]
