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TALE OF TALES (IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI) World Cinema

Description

Matteo Garrone’s TALE OF TALES is a collection of three ancient Italian fairy tales, all intertwined and illustrated with a blazing cinematic style that brings these unusual stories to the screen for the first time. A flea grown to enormous size, a king who fights a sea serpent for fertility, an old woman who seduces an oligarch, magical twins, a princess won by an ogre and many things in between all make appearances in this magical film. Garrone returns to AFI FEST for a third time (GOMMORAH, AFI FEST 2008; REALITY, AFI FEST 2012), here with a star-studded international cast set against the backdrop of some of Italy’s most incredible castles and natural wonders. — Lane Kneedler

Bios

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome in 1968. Starting in 1997 with his directorial feature debut, LAND IN BETWEEN, his films have been lauded on the international festival circuit, including GOMORRAH (Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2008), REALITY (Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2012), and TALE OF TALES, nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Contact

IFC Films

Details

Country: Italy

Year: 2014

Director: Matteo Garrone

Screenwriters: Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso

Producers: Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie

Executive Producers: Alessio Lazzareschi, Peter Watson, Nicki Hattingh, Anne Sheehan, Sheryl Crown

Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky

Editor: Marco Spoletini

Production Designer: Dimitri Capuani

Music: Alexandre Desplat

Cast/Featuring: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Bebe Cave, Stacy Martin, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Guillaume Delaunay, Alba Rohrwacher, Massimo Ceccherini, John C. Reilly

Running Time (minutes): 125 min

Language: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN

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