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  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 45 m

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...

Directed By: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis

Written By: Tommaso Bertani, Carlo Lavagna, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis

  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 45 m

The Tale of King Crab

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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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...

Directed By: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis

Written By: Tommaso Bertani, Carlo Lavagna, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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91
Mar 24, 2022
A rare and elusive sense of myth is captured in The Tale of King Crab.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
88
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 15, 2022
It’s an old-fashioned literary fable, spiked with shots of grimacing men with sunburned faces blasting one another with shotguns that wouldn’t be out of place in a Sergio Leone movie.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
80
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.
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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.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 22, 2022
The Tale Of King Crab doesn’t keep one's attention at first, but if the audience can make it past the period piece there is a thought-provoking western on the other end.
By Nadir Samara FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 24, 2022
The Tale of King Crab strains mightily for a poetic quality that it never quite achieves.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Ring Film, Shellac Sud, Wanka Cine, Volpe Films, Rai Cinema, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), Regione Lazio, European Union, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Programa Ibermedia
Release Date Apr 15, 2022
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Tagline The outcast Luciano, clouded by the thirst for vengeance against the Prince, starts a fire with tragic consequences. Forced to emigrate to the hostile Tierra del Fuego, the hunt for a long-lost treasure will transform his tragic fate into the Legend of the King Crab
Website https://kingcrab.oscilloscope.net/
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Awards

Santiago del Estero Film Festival (SEFF)
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
festival Dolce Cinema - Les Rencontres du Cinéma Italien à Grenoble
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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