Tale of Tales

The profoundly influential 17th-century fables of Giambattista Basile served as the basis for director Matteo Garrone’s grimly stylish multi-tiered fantasy. The desire of a queen (Salma Hayek) for offspring send her husband (John C. Reilly) into a fateful confrontation with a dragon; an obsessed king (Toby Jones) winds up pledging his daughter’s troth to an ogre; and the lusts of a regent (Vincent Cassel) have uncanny repercussions for two elderly sisters. Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Stacy Martin, Bebe Cave also star. 134 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.