The Italian director used fairytale locations in Puglia, Sicily and Lazio to give Tale of Tales atmosphere and magic
In Italy, we have many wonderful castles. My location manager spent eight months travelling from the north to the south to find the most amazing ones to use as locations for Tale of Tales.
The film is a sort of homage to the silent movies, like those made by Georges Méliès. So we wanted to find places that looked believable but could almost have been built in the studio. The Gole dell’Alcantara in Sicily – where the king in one of the stories goes into the water to fight a sea monster – was one of these places. We liked it because it was real but could have been created by the set designer.
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