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Tale of Tales
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3130
- IMDb #3779
- Google retired #3639
- Rotten Tomatoes #2458
- Metacritic #1862
- Letterboxd #2987
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1668
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3652
- Metacritic Critics #1306
- Metacritic Audience #3064
- Criticker #241
- Kinopoisk #4086
- AlloCiné #4080
- Trakt #4589
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 84. Critics average 78, everyone else 63.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A collection of dark and fantastical fairy tales based on the stories of Giambattista Basile. They include a queen who makes a dangerous pact with a sea monster to conceive a child, a king who becomes obsessed with a giant flea, and two old women who seek to regain their youth through magical means, with bloody and tragic consequences.
Details
- Director
- Matteo Garrone
- Writers
- Edoardo Albinati, Massimo Gaudioso, Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti
- Based on
- Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile
- Studio
- Archimede, Le Pacte, HanWay Films, New Sparta Films
- Released
- 14 May 2015
- Country
- United Kingdom, Italy, France
- Language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $5.5M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 61st David di Donatello Awards 2016 | Best Director | Matteo Garrone | Winner |
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