Tale of Tales

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It's an Italian movie

who's that french guy i've seen him in joan of arc and oceans 13 i think he's a terrific actor

Vincent Cassel, he really is a good actor. You should watch "La Haine", if you haven't already.

What you're missing is precisely the reason this movie is so great: It does not follow Hollywood's formulaic scripts.

You're right none of the characters is particularly likable, and all of them exhibit at least one severe human flaw. There's no caped hero you're supposed to sympathize with vs evil alien nazis you should hate in this movie. There are no role models, no one preaches any kind of values to the audience, there's moral ambiguity everywhere.

Then you feel the stories don't intertwine in any meaningful way. That's right, but what's wrong with it? The movie challenges the very notion that there must be an unified story in a movie. Again, you're seeing it through the lens of a formulaic script, which this movie is not. The title of the movie should be a clue, though.

If there's one unifying principle behind the tales is more about the complexity of the characters, often lead to action for less than honorable intentions, and the relationship of all of them with magic/fantastic creatures, which is actually made explicit by the necromancer who tells the Queen what she wants is possible but there will be a price to pay for it.

The movie kind of throws you in the middle of the story, within a large and fantastical universe, it leaves many hows and whys to the imagination and at the end leaves as many questions as answers.

They still make movies?

There was nothing feminist about the princess, if anything it is the opposite. She's shown to be a spoiled brat in need of a good dicking who just wants daddy to find her a husband, and once with the ogre is shown to be a useless whining twat who only manages to escape thanks to be rescued by others. She finally mans up and slices his throat under the direst of circumstances. And the reason she becomes Queen is because the King was dying and obviously abdicated in her favor.

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Anyone seen pic related? It's less adult than Tale of Tales but it's the same kind of sumptuous fantasy, and it also stars based Cassel.

He was pretty good in Black Swan too.

Cool castle