A Cannes regular showing a more drastic dip in form is Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone, whose multi-tentacled fairytale composite Tale of Tales (Curzon Artificial Eye, 15) is a messy beast indeed.
Alternatives include fantasy actioner Gods of Egypt, comedy sequel Barbershop 3: A Fresh Cut, Matteo Garrone's fairytale compilation Tale of Tales, American civil war drama The Keeping Room, 18-rated French teen flick Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) and UK indie The Violators.
The game had a cartoonish art style similar to The Wind Waker, as it has a fairy tale setting similar to said game, within "the world of tiny fairies, a universal fairytale story".
It was a fairytale story.
The tale of how one of the most famous gallery owners in Manhattan wound up purchasing the photographs of an unheard of farmer from Ravenna, Italy, resembles, in many ways, the fairytale story of American street photographer Vivian Maier.
The country's history is intertwined with magical, fairytale-like tales of reincarnated rulers and lama-saints fighting the demons who opposed the spread of Buddhism.
An alternative term for "fairytale" is "wonder tale", from the German wundermärchen, which catches a quality of the genre more eloquently than "fairytale" or "folk tale" because it acknowledges the defining activity of magic in the stories.
A Warrior's Tale Fairytale animation for kids.
This year's selection seems to go in the exact opposite direction, with an emphasis on the delights of whimsy-packed stop motion (Laika's admittedly-superb Boxtrolls), far out Celtic fantasy (Song of the Sea) and hypnagogic Studio Ghibli fairytale fable (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya).
Somehow, Ma has made this living hell a fairytale, telling Jack tales of Wonderland and the Count of Monte Cristo, and singing him to sleep on the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
