Bad Tales

2020 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten47%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright64%
IMDb Rating6.4107325

family issues

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ladiloque6 / 10

Could have been a masterpiece

It's hard to review such a title: talking about the plot might give away too much or be misleading. I'll just write my observations on the final product: not very useful for those who have to decide whether to watch it or not but well... that's it.

Despite the initial word joke about the source material, I found the story quite inspired - whether it is supposed to be true, made up, a mix, a fairy tale or whatever hermeneutical meta-perspective we are supposed to adopt. Inspired, as was the previous (and first full length) film written and directed by the D'Innocenzo brothers: "La terra dell'abbastanza". Unfortunately I found here the same problems I found there: the overall result is uneven, disjointed, a little inconsistent and often cold.

By cold, I don't mean that it lets the viewer feel the unbridgeable divide between these kids/adolescents and their parents: that divide emerges as an overall unwillingness of adults to understand (or even listen) to kids. By cold I mean that while I wasn't bored wacthing the film, I didn't care either about most of what happened to most of the characters: alienating. Among other things this is mainly due to scenes too stylized/simplistic and to the acting from the kids which - with few exceptions - is not good enough.

At times surgical in a too detached way and others indulging in irrelevant details that just stress the same buttons or feel gratuitously obscure. Finally - and in this worse than "La terra dell'abbastanza" - "Favolacce" feels sometimes inconsistent even for those willing to spend time trying to decipher the code:

  • who is this narrator that talks like columnists (and screenplayers..) write, finds quite an intellectual's hobby, but has the most unrefined and boorish accent of the film?
  • are we supposed to (re-)read "the Canterville Ghost" to LOVE the movie?
  • are we supposed to listen again and again to the badly pronounced/registered dialogues to not miss what's said?.
  • are we supposed to give our own answers to these and all the other questions that arise watching this "fable"?


Or the questions ARE the story, and we're just tricked with opaque symbols and vague happenings into believing that there's more (and in this "La terra dell'abbastanza" fared better given its plain Noir status). I don't feel like attempting to reach the "hermetic intellectual heights" of any author: for sure I won't make an exception in this case.

Still some scenes and characters magnetize the viewers' attention and alone deserve to be watched (thanks to both the direction, supporting actors like the very good Ileana D'Ambra and Barbara Chichiarelli and/or the writing).

Surely I won't miss D'Innocenzos' next work: yet - and I'm really unsure which one - I would suggest to the authors to work together with a better screenplayer, a better director or both.

Reviewed by ops-525354 / 10

''flat deutsch''...

Is an expression ive heard , but flat italian is so insanely impossible, due to the alps dividing the blood and temper of culture, but believe it or not, this was a c-flat inemotional horizontal coaster ive ridden for a few years.

Its a couple of family sagas thats the main subject, loads of bad and misunderstood parenting, children that react on reflexes rather than sane decisions, where the incestous sides are very close, and the love and hate aspect rigid but crucial.

But its boringly plotted and written the child cast do above, the adult cast a bit below average, there are long on distance shoots that doent at all switch on one imagination, and if you have that, then skip it, itll ruin your ability. Its saggy and slow, there are twists in the bodybag but they seem rather unrealistic and may happen 1/100000000 timesm a year.

No this was a messy wannabe hunky stroll at the hypercultural mainstream of socialrealism to shock us all, but it wont. I believe youll have to be italian in soul and spirits to contain something outta this. The grumpy old man gives 4 outta 10 stars, not recommended.

Reviewed by Alexander_Blanchett7 / 10

A good tale of Bad People

It was a good Concept and a good cast. The work out of the Concept was fine but with room for improvement. The ending is quite shocking and surprising in a way. But I think they could have done more intensive work with showing the dynamic between the suburbian neighbours. At least I hoped for it. The direction is good, there are many intersting Scenes. The acting of especially the Kids who are on the Center stage of that film is fantastic and already that is enough to make it worthwhile to watch this film. The Soundtrack and look is great. The screenplay is probably the weakest part. But generally its still a good film, with many intersting characters (all of them Kind of unlikeable - especially the adult ones). Good european Cinema.

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