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Which three tales of Giambattista Basile is this based upon?

posted 10 years ago by rabbit-room
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Any insights would be most welcome.

[–] SuperKino 10 years ago

They are all from the same fairy-tales collection "Lo cunto de li cun-ti" also know as "Pentamerone", the stories are "La cerva fatata" (The enchanted doe), "La pulce" (The flea) and "La vecchia scorticata" (The three sisters).

[–] rabbit-room 10 years ago

Wonderful, thanks!

[–] kit-sung 9 years ago

Thats only partly true: The stories mentioned are adapted, sometimes heavily. It seems that Garrone took elements from various stories and mixed them as he pleased.

[–] nedroj68 9 years ago

And he did it very well ill think (:

[–] george_aslf 9 years ago

Indeed. An amazing film.

[–] sborges 9 years ago

For some reason, it did remind me of the Taviani brothers' mythical "Kaos".

[–] felicity_gr 8 years ago

I agree! I suppose it was the Mediterranean setting and the excellent direction!

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[–] felicity_gr 9 years ago

Hi there! I believe that the English title of "La Vecchia Scorticata" is something like "The Flayed Old Lady" or "The Old Lady Who Was Skinned", since the "Three Sisters" story seems to be totally unrelated to what we saw on screen (as far as I can tell from its Wikipedia description). I've found a summary of the story here: http://listverse.com/2012/12/05/top-10-truly-disturbing-fairy-tales/
It seems the movie followed the original pretty closely.

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[–] pmunday 8 years ago

Thanks very much for this.

[–] pc_buttspasm 8 years ago

"Lo cunto de li cun-ti"

lol