Das Märchen der Märchen

Garrone's film takes three of Basile's stories and visualizes them with no stinting on the nasty bits.

...he might not be Fellini, but at least he manages to pull off something more captivating than a run-of-the-mill Disney-fied bedtime story.

Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense: a freaky portmanteau film based on the folk myths collected and published by the 16th-century Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambattista Basile...

...‘Tale of Tales’ er en fremragende filmatisering af Basiles balstyriske fabler, der emmer af lige dele mørke og magi.

...lika mörk och brutal som den är rolig och lekfull. Kostymerna är spektakulära och miljöerna så genomarbetade att de lyckas skapa en alldeles egen och trovärdig trolsk värld.

A lavish curio that at times tests your patience, but rewards you with its sumptuous design.