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Italy, France, Argentina · 2021
1h 46m
Director Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Starring Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Ercole Colnago, Bruno Di Giovanni
Genre Drama
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This mythic tale tells the legend of Luciano, a wayward outcast from a 19th-century Italian village. Luciano, a rebellious alcoholic, quarrels with the local prince, who eventually exiles him for committing a terrible crime. Forced to flee to a remote island in Argentina, Luciano sets out on a chaotic quest for a hidden shipwreck treasure.
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.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The Tale of King Crab strains mightily for a poetic quality that it never quite achieves.
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.
The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor
A rare and elusive sense of myth is captured in The Tale of King Crab.
The Tale of King Crab is an engrossing, if slight riff on 1970s foreign arthouse classics — though not quite as spellbinding as its forebears, despite a bifurcated structure that makes for two occasionally tantalizing films in one.
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