The Tale of King Crab

Name: The Tale of King Crab
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Released: April 15, 2022
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Bruno di Giovanni, Claudio Castori, Domenico Chiozzi, Eccelso Cassanelli, Ercole Colnago

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Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: April 15, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Bruno di Giovanni, Claudio Castori, Domenico Chiozzi, Eccelso Cassanelli, Ercole Colnago, Gabriele Silli, Giovanni Morichelli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Renato Sterpa, Severino Sperandio

Summary: Italy, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the local tale of Luciano. Luciano lives as a wandering drunkard in a remote village of the region called Tuscia. Spiteful actions ensue between him and the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. Fueled by passions and jealousy, these actions result in aItaly, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the local tale of Luciano. Luciano lives as a wandering drunkard in a remote village of the region called Tuscia. Spiteful actions ensue between him and the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. Fueled by passions and jealousy, these actions result in a horrible misdeed. Now an unfortunate criminal, Luciano is exiled to the distant Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way towards redemption. However, in these barren lands, only greed and insanity can prevail.… Expand

Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Mar 24, 2022

A rare and elusive sense of myth is captured in The Tale of King Crab. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 30, 2022

An intimate piece of romantic folklore with breathtaking geographical ambition, The Tale of the King Crab comes to theaters feeling familiar, but startling in what it shows us and where it takes us. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Apr 15, 2022

This Italian import's title may make it sound like either a kids movie or a cooking documentary, but it proves to be a wild and compelling work that simultaneously evokes the influence of such disparate filmmakers as Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, and Sergio Leone (not to mention a dash of “Broadway Danny Rose”-era Woody Allen) while still coming across as a fresh and unique cinematic vision. Read full review

Jonathan Holland

Mar 24, 2022

Watching The Tale Of King Crab feels like watching the stories on which all later stories have been based. You also get brooding intensity and slippery, dreamlike atmospherics and dialogues that strip things back to their essentials. Read full review

Carson Lund

Apr 19, 2022

A film that so clearly takes delight in the unfolding of a story and the unpacking of an enigmatic character is refreshing in an arthouse landscape where such narrative qualities are often relegated to secondary concerns. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Apr 28, 2022

By turns beautiful and ugly, occasionally infuriating in its obfuscation and disconnect, always slow and intriguing, King Crab is powered by the wild-eyed and soft-spoken charisma of Silli as the instinctually rebellious and disdainful Luciano. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 24, 2022

The Tale of King Crab strains mightily for a poetic quality that it never quite achieves. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Apr 23, 2022

This film is slow to build, plot wise but I'd say the last part/section (just over an hour in) is most haunting. It's a tale about desperation, perseverence and greed. I feel its meant to be about redemption but I'm not sure that's ultimately the case. Can a man change his character later inThis film is slow to build, plot wise but I'd say the last part/section (just over an hour in) is most haunting. It's a tale about desperation, perseverence and greed. I feel its meant to be about redemption but I'm not sure that's ultimately the case. Can a man change his character later in life? perhaps or perhaps not. If you like arty, folklore type films then this may be worth a watch, otherwise not so much. I'm not certain I fully 'got' this film but I did like the ocassional landscape shot.… Expand

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