Tale of Tales (2015)

Original title

Il racconto dei racconti

Directed by

Matteo Garrone

Genre

horror film, romance film, cinematic fairy tale, speculative fiction film

Country

United Kingdom, France, Italy

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 1,744 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three interconnected stories from an Italian fairy tale collection follow kings, queens, and magical creatures. A ruler is desperate for a child, a king is obsessed with a flea, and a queen makes a deal with an ogre.

darkly comicdreamlikevisually lushunsettlingslow-burnwhimsicalgrotesquefairy-tale

What happens

Tale of Tales is a 2015 fantasy horror film co-written, directed and co-produced by Matteo Garrone and starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C. Reilly. It is based on a collection of fairy tales by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, titled Pentamerone. The three main tales that inspired the film are La Cerva Fatata (The Enchanted Doe), La Pulce (The Flea), La Vecchia Scorticata (The Flayed Old Lady). An Italian-led production with co-producers in France and the United Kingdom, Tale of Tales is Garrone's only English-language film. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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