Project
Tale of Tales
Director
Matteo Garrone
Production
Archimede
Year
2015
Il racconto dei racconti (Tale of Tale) is a 2015 English-language Italian-French-British fantasy horror film, directed by Matteo Garrone, starring Salma Hayek,Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C Reilly. An Italian-led production with co-producers in France and the United Kingdom, the film is Garrone's first English-language film. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It is a screen adaptation based on collections of tales by Neapolitan poet and courtierGiambattista Basile: Pentamerone or Lo cunto de li cunti (Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones), which contains the earliest versions of famous fables likeRapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.
