Became widely known thanks to the review of BadComedian, a collection of three fairy tales directed by Porechenkov was not so bad.
This statement can be considered true, if we stop considering this film at least somewhat childish. If you see in this collection the deconstruction of the genre of cheap children's productions, the picture turns out to be quite worthy.
In favor of the unchildishness of “Tales” Porechenkov say several facts at once. All three stories are extremely far from children and their problems (well, maybe the first one will somehow be clear to small audiences, but even then with a great stretch). In the films, references are everywhere, understandable only to an adult viewer - a banter on emo, a marine bear (an image created clearly under the influence of Porechenkov's previous roles), the fight against totalitarianism. Oh, man, the girl has one of the toys - a dictionary!
Many of the cliches from family films are so crudely smeared (such as Mom and Dad’s fight in the second story) that it seems obvious that no one expects it to be taken seriously. The stories themselves develop without the help of the main characters. Something happens by itself. It is hard to imagine that anyone could count on a serious perception of such turns. And this is achieved by the joint efforts of the screenwriter, operator and editor.
The film is a product of the saturated zero era. Everything looks expensive and rich, scenery and costumes are not stingy, tried to shoot qualitatively, played with angles, used computer processing. Although the film was made with public money, it still seems that almost the entire budget has reached the set.
At the same time, in places they frankly cheated - the speech of the actors was written for profit, and music with songs and effects was thrown on post-processing, from which replicas are sometimes difficult to hear behind the music. Sometimes it seems that different scenes in the same story were staged by different people. There was an editor somewhere.
It all looks like a group of amateur actors were able to collect cool actors and get money out of the Cinema Foundation. The Cinema Foundation, however, paid for the children's film, hence the theme of the art house. I think everyone had fun on the set, even if there was not enough experience.