Matteo Garrone’s Reality won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2012. He’s back in competition next month with The Tale of Tales “loosely based on stories from a 17th-century fairytale collection compiled by Giambattista Basile.” Eat your heart out, Sleeping Beauty.
Cannes trailer: The Tale of Tales
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I loved Reality, I kinda disliked Gomorrah, so I’m really looking forward to this movie. The trailer didn’t exactly give me goosebumps but it might turn out to be really good.
I’m getting a style over substance vibe from this one. I bet it gets eviscerated at Cannes.
And Oscar noms? No way, even if it’s great. The crew is not “Hollywood” enough.
Lookin’ Good, Lookin’ Good!
Bryce,
Da’ Fuck??? Gomorrah is THAT old!!!! I haven’t even seen the film, but I remember seeing the posters in the subway like it was yesterday. Oh my, time flies! sigh 🙁
REALITY was mildly underwhelming, but fwiw GOMORRAH was my No.1 film of 2008.
2008: 1. GOMORRAH, 2. CHE, 3. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, 4. SPEED RACER, 5. THE HEADLESS WOMAN, 6. THE CLASS, 7. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, 8. ME AND ORSON WELLES, 9. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, 10. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
TALE looks amazing.
So, early frontrunner for all the tech categories? This trailer alone has the most interesting cinematography, costumes, and production design I’ve seen yet this year.
I agree, if it makes some kind of positive impression and gets proper distribution it could certainly be a strong candidate for production design and costumes at least. And the score is by Alexander Desplat so there’s that.
I have to admit my almost total unfamiliarity with Garrone (my knowledge stops at “Gomorrah and Reality are films that exist”), but I have to say this seems like an interesting project. The visual elements are all extremely on-point, not overblown like so many high fantasy-type films have the potential to be, though part of me is suspicious that it may look better assembled in a trailer than as a final product. I wish it were in Italian, though. Would have given it that extra authentic flavor (not to dismiss Garrone’s grasp of his own culture’s work, of course).
Speaking of it being in English, how do people think this will fare post-Cannes? Salma Hayek could supply some box office draw, and this seems like the kind of thing that could be a tech giant at the Oscars, if it’s played right.
This reminds me of Guillermo del Toro’s work, which is good.
This seems to be more Snow White than Sleeping Beauty… is it a mash-up or something? Just like in the Disney cartoon, there is no way that Snow White (if it is Snow White) is more beautiful than the Queen.