This English-language fairy tale from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) stars Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, and Vincent Cassel in a "sort of grown-up, far darker cousin to 'The Princess Bride.'" - New Orleans Times-Picayune
"The most faithful and creatively rendered fairytale onscreen to date" - Village Voice
"A masterpiece of black-comic bad taste and a positive carnival of transgression. The secret is the deadpan seriousness with which everything is treated." - The Guardian
"Matteo Garrone returns the fairy tale to its roots in cautionary horror grounded in deep, contradictory, neurotic relationships with gender and patriarchy." - Slant
"Dances on a razor’s edge between funny and unnerving, with sequences of shadow-spun horror rubbing up against moments of searing baroque beauty. The result is a fabulously sexy, defiantly unfashionable readymade cult item." - The Telegraph
...Once upon a time there were three neighboring kingdoms, each with a magnificent castle from which ruled kings and queens, princes and princesses. One king was a fornicating libertine, another captivated by a strange animal, while one of the queens was obsessed with her wish for a child. Sorcerers and fairies, fearsome monsters, ogres and old washerwomen, acrobats and courtesans are the protagonists of this loose interpretation of the celebrated tales of Giambattista Basile. 133 mins. Not Rated (not recommended for children).
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