Music, Memory and Narrative: The Art of Telling in <i>Tale of Tales</i>

Skazka Skazok/Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979) has delighted and puzzled audiences critics ever since its release. It presents a series beautifully-animated episodes that seem to make narrative sense at the micro-level appear fit together as whole, but leaves audience bemused why this should be so. The article discusses history context film, arguing ways in which sound and, particularly, music are deployed relation visual elements provide powerful clues cues film’s over-arching significances. Close analysis music, visuals reveals teleological underpinnings realized by means alignment re-alignment image, leading new understanding how film success can interpreted.