7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Romance, Fantasy, Horror • 2015 • 134 min • Adults (18+)
Tale of Tales (2015)
Tale of Tales (2015)
Overview
Matteo Garrone's Italian dark fantasy weaves three stories from Giambattista Basile's 17th-century fairy tales into a single R-rated film starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and Toby Jones. Each royal protagonist is consumed by desire: a queen desperate for a child, a king seduced by a voice, a king obsessed with a flea. The result is a portrait of power corrupting everyone it touches. The Neutral label fits because the film's signals largely cancel out. Its dark treatment of family and marriage reads as progressive, but the film has no political agenda, no identity-politics framing, and no obvious culture-war footprint. It is moral fable, not advocacy.
Starring Cast
Salma Hayek • Vincent Cassel • Toby Jones
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
Matteo Garrone's Italian dark fantasy weaves three stories from Giambattista Basile's 17th-century fairy tales into a single R-rated film starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and Toby Jones. Each royal protagonist is consumed by desire: a queen desperate for a child, a king seduced by a voice, a king obsessed with a flea. The result is a portrait of power corrupting everyone it touches. The Neutral label fits because the film's signals largely cancel out. Its dark treatment of family and marriage reads as progressive, but the film has no political agenda, no identity-politics framing, and no obvious culture-war footprint. It is moral fable, not advocacy.
Starring Cast
Salma Hayek • Vincent Cassel • Toby Jones
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
This dark fantasy film explores the universal themes of human desire, obsession, and the corrupting influence of power through a series of interconnected fairy tales. It critiques the moral failings and grotesque excesses of its royal characters, illustrating the tragic consequences of their unchecked ambitions without advocating for a specific political ideology or systemic solution.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
Tale of Tales features a visibly diverse cast within its European fantasy setting. The film's narrative, which adapts classic fairy tales, does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center on modern DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The film presents a dark, fantastical exploration of royal families, consistently depicting dysfunctional and destructive dynamics. Parental authority is undermined through neglect and possessiveness, while marriages are portrayed as transactional or driven by selfish desires, leading to tragic outcomes.
LGBTQ: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
Tale of Tales does not feature identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The film explores dark fantasy narratives drawn from 17th-century Italian fairy tales, focusing on royal desires, magical transformations, and the consequences of ambition across its three interwoven stories. No elements related to transsexual identity are present in the plot.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film adapts several 17th-century Italian fairy tales. All major characters, including the Queen, the King, the Old Women, and the Princess, maintain their original genders as established in Giambattista Basile's source material. No instances of characters canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another are present.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film adapts 17th-century Italian fairy tales. The source material does not explicitly define the race of its characters, nor are they historical figures with documented racial identities. The casting of actors of various ethnicities does not constitute a race swap, as no character was canonically established as a different race in prior iterations.
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6.4
6.4
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