Dead dragons, raw heart munching and John C Reilly in a big gold crown. Here's a first trailer for the fantasy movie, The Tale Of Tales...
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Salma Hayek tucking into a gigantic raw heart at a long banquet table. Toby Jones in a wood-panelled bedroom, fondling a large creature that looks a bit like an elephant seal. These are just some of the extraordinary sequences you'll find in the extraordinary trailer for The Tale Of Tales.
Based on the collection of Italian fairytales of the same name, The Tale Of Tales is the latest feature from Matteo Garrone, best known, perhaps, for his unvarnished drama about Italian organised crime, Gomorra.
Also starring Vincent Cassel and John C Reilly, The Tale Of Tales looks like a full-blooded and surreal fantasy - akin, perhaps, to a cross between Game Of Thronesand Fellini's Satyricon. John C Reilly was undoubtedly born to wear a big gold crown.
The Tale Of Tales is to screen at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it's in the running for a Palm D'Or. That takes place in May, where it will coincide with the film's Italian debut on the 14th May. We should be hearing about its UK and US distribution dates shortly afterwards.
Until then, here's that wonderfully oblique trailer.
