Tale of Tales (2015)

Great Film overall

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Much more nudity than expected. The parental warnings did not share all of the sexual content. One rape scene, not graphic but somewhat violent. A man is fully naked but only can be seen from behind. He's also very sexually charged. Numerous naked women seen topless multiple times throughout the film. Some violence and a bit of gore. The stories were intriguing and held my attention.

If your like me and value the time you spend to watch a movie then this one will not disappoint. It moves quickly and I didn't feel like I wasted 2 hours on a piece of crap.

This is an adult tale of three storybook kingdoms which include magic, witchcraft and sorcery. The first tale involves Salma Hayek as a queen in an odd version of "The Prince and the Pauper." The second kingdom involves a princess who desperately wants to leave the castle and explore the outside world as her father holds an odd contest for her hand. The third involves a lustful king tricked into spending the night with an old woman.The three tales swap back and forth in case you get bored. The cinematography was grand and better than the plots, whose theme appears to be: Be careful what you wish for and something to do with birth and death. The sorcerer was going to explain it, but Salma Hayek wanted the Cliff Notes version.Guide: Sex and Nudity (Stacy Martin, Catrinel Martin, Guenda Marlon )

First thing, this is not a movie everyone will enjoy. If you see the label fantasy and think it will be like Lord of the Rings, you are way off, and probably will be disappointed. It is definitely a fantasy but it is more like Pan's Labyrinth, but not really either. The best I can put it, it's different.Somewhat based on the Giambattista Basile's (I hadn't heard of him before either, but kind of interesting to look up) collection of fairytales. The movie therefore has several different subplots, very lossely connected (i.e. not at all really more than that the characters meet sometimes).The movie is no stranger to either nudity, sex or gore but it is not the highlights of the movie it all. It is just... there. The movie is more about different kinds of obsession. The pace of the movie is slow (sometimes refreshingly so) and not everything is explained. A lot of the stories you got to figure out yourselves, and somethings are never resolved. A movie fun to watch if you want to test something outside the mainstream blockbuster cinema.