Commercial and music-video director Tarsem Singh's second feature – he made his debut with the thriller THE CELL (2000) – is a tale-within-a-tale that glides between a hospital in 1915 Los Angeles and a surreal, fairy tale world of exotic adventure inspired by the Bulgarian film
Yo Ho Ho.
Five-year-old Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), her collarbone and left arm awkwardly splinted, is recovering from the tumble she took while picking oranges with her mother and sister – they fled their Eastern European homeland after political unrest claimed her father and their home. Stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) broke his back while filming a Western; his girlfriend (J...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
117 mins