A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying e... Read allA long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 16 nominations
Samuel Leakey
- Hansel
- (as Samuel J. Leakey)
Abdul Alshareef
- Knight
- (uncredited)
Beatrix Perkins
- Clicky
- (uncredited)
Manuel Pombo
- Knight
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Rob Hayes
- Jacob Grimm(uncredited)
- Wilhelm Grimm(uncredited)
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Storyline
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- TriviaAt one point a song floats over the soundtrack: "My mother, she killed me, my father, he ate me, and my little sister, my bones she kept, what a pretty bird am I!" This comes from another Grimm fairy tale, "The Juniper Tree,"widely considered by scholars as the darkest of all their tales. In it, a spiteful mother beheads her stepson and blames it on her daughter. She then cooks the corpse and feeds it to his husband, as the daughter picks up the bones from under the table and plants it under a juniper tree on the family's garden. A small bird appears from the grave, singing the song in question while picking a pair of new shoes, a gold chain and a mill stone, and then carries them to the house. The bird then gives the shoes to the daughter, the chain to the father and drops the stone on the stepmother, killing her. As she dies, the bird turns into a boy again and the story ends. The film borrows some thematic elements this tale.
- GoofsGretel and Hansel talk while sitting on a bed in the foreground. On the adjoining bed in the background a cat stands up and jumps to the floor. However the cat reappears on the bed and disappears several times throughout the scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Half in the Bag: IT Chapter Two (2019)
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Wonderful Cinematography
The poor girl Gretel (Sophia Lillis) and his little brother Hansel (Samuel J. Leakey) are left by their mother and they must cross a dark wood seeking out work and food. They stumble upon a house with a feast on the table and Hansel opens the door to get some food. Out of the blue, an old woman (Alice Krige) surprises the little boy and offers a job to the siblings. But soon the smart Gretel feels that something evil lives in the house.
"Gretel & Hansel" is a film slightly based on the Brothers Grimm's fairytale. The wonderful cinematography is impressive, the cast is great, but the pointless screenplay does not help. The pace is also too slow for the genre. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Maria e João: O Conto das Bruxas" ("Mary and John: The Witch Tale")
"Gretel & Hansel" is a film slightly based on the Brothers Grimm's fairytale. The wonderful cinematography is impressive, the cast is great, but the pointless screenplay does not help. The pace is also too slow for the genre. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Maria e João: O Conto das Bruxas" ("Mary and John: The Witch Tale")
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- Apr 22, 2020
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- Language
- Also known as
- Gretel & Hansel: Truyện Cổ Kỳ Dị
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,347,654
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,154,007
- Feb 2, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $22,304,357
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.55 : 1
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