“Tale of Tales” in cinema – the discourse of desire – Süddeutsche.de

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Matteo Garrone has brought the collection of storyteller Giambattista Basile from the 17th century to the canvas. What he shows here, goes in its excessiveness under the skin.

Despite the vastness of the landscape, with all spaciousness of the palaces – this is a film of claustrophobia. Of confinement, of hopelessness. Once the queen of Longtrellis (Salma Hayek) incited her son afterward through the corridors of a maze, and suddenly she is irritated at the center, it now does not continue, but the son is not there, he was secretly with his buddy over the wall climbed and had changed the course.

The hopelessness of this film is full, people have admittedly self-fabricated, by her boundless longing and desire and through the common social systems that they think up to satisfy them.

The discourse of pleasure follows in this film willingly the template, the Penta Meron of the Giambattista Basile from the first third of the 17th century, in the rebel the remnants of feudalism once strong but his morale is influenced strongly by bourgeois thinking about.

In the Seventies Pasolini’s ever tackled this dilemma when he with his own archaic-revolutionary ’68 dynamics the stories of the Arabian Nights, the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales off against each other

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Matteo Garrone is also a filmmaker who likes everything to turned upside-down. After the worldwide success “Gomorrah”, after the mafia-tell-all book by Roberto Saviano, it has dozens of got Hollywood offers, but none of them has fitted him.

Royals, who are the mafiosi used quite narrow

But he has now turned “Tale of Tales” an Italian movie for the whole world, for which he himself took care of the financing, produced to the twelve million euros, with the support of adventurous producer Jeremy Thomas, the films of Bertolucci , and Gilliam, Linklater or Cronenberg.

Upside was the “Tale of Tales” in English, with stars such as Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones and Vincent Cassel. The richness and splendor that can develop these as Royals have here, something deeply stuffy and Bound. The kings Reilly and Jones are cuddly bears, Cassel is a boring horny goat in Pre-Raphaelite style. They are the mafiosi in Garrone “Gomorrah” quite closely related.