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Tale of Tales

Tale of Tales

1979
Animation
Short Film
29m
Taking a Russian lullaby as its motif, Tale of Tales is a dreamlike 30 minute film which uses a mixture of 2D and stop motion, to evoke the author's childhood memories, and more generally the themes of memory, lost youth, innocence and war. (keyframeonline.com)
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Tale of Tales

1979
Animation
Short Film
29m
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Rated 14 Feb 2017
88
95th
Achingly beautiful dream of life. Deeply haunting yet almost paradoxically reassuring in it's emotional truthfulness. Much like Hedgehog in the Fog, the ambiguity of this film makes the world slightly more whole in my mind.
Rated 29 Aug 2011
85
80th
If you just go in and accept what it is, you will be treated to a short that's very much like Tarkovsky's Mirror in the way it tells its "story." I think the title actually makes a lot of sense. But anyway, yeah, it's pretty difficult to understand because it's fractured memories, but the way its set up, the beautiful imagery, and even the memorable characters (I love the bull and the wolf), makes this an amazing short. Truly deserving of the hype.
Rated 27 Aug 2015
91
98th
Easily the greatest and most beautiful animated movie I have ever seen (and heard: the sound and music are also great), and perhaps the only animated masterpiece. Imbued with a sense of the tragedy of life and memory, intertwined as they are with dreams, every moment is filled with pure joy and pure sadness. A work of art, and a demonstration of the potential for animation to produce a kind of mostly unrealised pure cinema. Also one of the greatest short movies of all time, if not the best.
Rated 18 Jun 2010
85
84th
The images are so gorgeous and wistful and artful. The animation is somewhat "crude", but often deceptively so... there's nothing amateur about the brilliant use of mixed media, or the breathtaking lighting effects. The story is rich with symbolism. Even without always being able to fully understand the significance of what I was seeing, I could feel the weight of nostalgia and melancholy, the dreamlike atmosphere, the simple poetry of a particular sequence. Lovely use of Bach and Mozart.
Rated 27 Feb 2009
70
61st
Interesting.
Rated 21 Jan 2010
82
67th
Beautiful imagery though for a film called "tale of tales" I expected a bit more story.
Rated 10 Mar 2013
71
84th
There is some really beautiful work with layers and depth of field.
Rated 03 Aug 2013
80
77th
Jaw-droppingly gorgeous, with substance and portent coming out its ears, but I'm not sure if the obtuseness helps things any.
Rated 11 Oct 2014
81
80th
Really great animation (or "multfilm") from a visual perspective. Lovely intricate artwork, mesmerising layers and highly creative transitions. Thematically, not so easy to follow or understand - I like a concrete story to get my teeth into. But I will come back to this dreamlike world to marvel at the beauty of its art and sound design.
Rated 09 Jul 2012
5
81st
The first thing I thought was "animated Tarkovsky" only to come here and see others with that exact same sentiment, which makes me feel both satisfied and a bit sad. Do you think anyone has ever watched Nostalghia and said "this is like a live action Norshteyn film"?
Rated 09 Sep 2015
7
92nd
life, love, war, sad, remember, life, repeat.
Rated 17 May 2016
80
91st
It's a beautiful if not very accessible work. Highly varied, detailed and cutting-edge animation techniques perfectly suit the animator's uncompromising artistic vision. Norshteyn is truly a paragon of the animator as an actual artist rather than just an entertainer
Rated 11 Sep 2015
93
96th
http://www.awn.com/animationworld/book-review-yuri-norstein-and-tale-tales-animator-s-journey One of the most comforting shorts and probably even films I have ever seen.
Rated 06 Apr 2015
65
45th
Due to my American ignorance I didn't always know what was going on but the animation was beautiful and sometimes haunting.
Rated 06 Sep 2010
95
95th
For those of you confused about the title: The original title, according to some sources anyway, was "The Little Grey Wolf Will Come" (line from lullaby that very much resembles the short), but it was rejected by Soviet censors.
Rated 16 Jan 2010
51
1st
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Rated 01 Mar 2010
76
38th
Really nice stuff, with absolutely beautiful animation. But yeah talk about your misleading titles
Rated 07 Nov 2010
62
23rd
The animation was wonderful, but I couldn't get into it because of how fragmented it felt.
Rated 12 Jun 2013
75
74th
Highly original animation. Oblique story.
Rated 09 Oct 2013
80
81st
For me the best part is the very beginning, where the mother softly sings to her baby: "Hush little baby, don't you cry, or the little grey wolf will hear. The wolf is always near. Sleep tight baby and be good, or he'll take you to the dark and scary woods." The aura of that scene is truly breathtaking. Loved it.
Rated 28 Jun 2021
87
71st
The end of the wolf and baby story thread is the most unsettling thing I've seen in awhile. I have a lot to think about
Rated 07 Nov 2021
6
5th
Lovely but animation is very much not my thing
Rated 21 Jul 2022
71
46th
I think there was a cultural disconnect for me here, as I didn't really get what was going on all the time, and it didn't TOTALLY do it for me, but the film is very inventive and the animation, which seems to be a combination of multiple styles (2D and stop motion) is beautiful and the use of lighting effects within an animation piece is stunning. Unlike anything else I've ever seen, and certainly well worth the 30 minutes.

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