These overlapping tales are horrific. The fact that the plots are based on the earliest recorded European fairy tales make it all the more unique. The acting is top knotch and the film itself is beautiful.

Slow, disjointed, uninteresting characters that I didn't care what happens to them and unfinished storyline. Terrible.

Visually very appealing, and an aspect of gruesome and gothic style horror, but the narrative also left me wanting. A lot of the stories felt disjointed, and loosely chopped together with no one story being long enough to really engage the audience in the way other gothic horror or gothic fantasy does. It left me rather unsatisfied by the plot lines.

I wish they could have spent more time on each individual story, it seemed a bit chopped together and disjointed for me. Otherwise, I really enjoyed it. I do think this idea would have been much more better suited for a 온라인카지노추천 series.

A queen that will go to any lengths to have a child, a beloved flea, and a pair of old crones wooing a king. Based on a collection of fairy tales by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, titled Pentamerone, these are from the days when fairy tales were for adults. I found the film far more enjoyable than I predicted. The stories are just so weird and disturbing. There doesn't seem to be an overall point to the film as a whole and I do wonder how it would've appeared if each tale was told and resolved individually. Oftentimes the jumps from one story to another was awkward. If you're looking for something different, here it is.

Perhaps one of the few "Fairy Tales for Adults" movies that keeps the whimsy of the source material. Even with the added violence and sexual content it never engages in deconstruction which is quite refreshing.

So bad. So bad. So unsatisfying.

It's entertaining, but I wouldn't watch it again.

3 incongruous amd very weird stories barely related to each other and more importantly impossible to see what the point of these different sories really is ! While the acting is good, the movie is not very captivating nor remotely entertainimg. The story ends make absolutely no sense. The end of each different story left me thing; "wtf". There is no satisfaction of any finely threaded story. Just a succesion of weird events with no "heads nor tails". Right up there with the most sensless movies i have ever seen amd a sentiment of a wasted 2 hours of cinematography. My wife shares my impressions.

Writer/Director Garrone started out making gritty films of contemporary urban crime and suffering. Why did he suddenly want to make a fantasy movie? He appears to be trying to make 'adult' versions of these stories, not realizing that traditional fairy tales were originally meant for adults. Plus Garrone is a remarkably clumsy director, time and again muffing the dramatic and emotional possibilities in scenes, and he is seriously unable to stage a decent action sequence. Anything magical is downplayed: the ogre is just an extra tall, brutish, verbally-challenged man; the sea monster looks like an overgrown aquarium pet and simply sleeps until given a death blow in a scene obscured by muddy water; and the very un-witchy witch dispenses youth to the old lady through her breast milk (one of many examples of Garrone's dwelling on the gross for its own sake). There is very little genuine human feeling in this film, apart from the filial devotion of the real twins playing the sea monster's sons. Though Garonne presents the various rulers in these stories as being extraordinarily selfish and utterly disinterested in ruling properly, he does not appear to question their right to their undeserved power. The best fantasy takes us temporarily out of this world to reveal possibilities for transformation in our lives. Garrone stubbornly keeps his attempt at fantasy tethered to this world and its unchanging miseries.

This was a fun movie, fairy tales for adults is the perfect way to describe it. Good actors and a fun time.

Film articulated in several stories all with a very nice ending that in the end converge but not in the way that one can expect. Even if the stories are many, they follow very well and they are all quite valid, so much so that the film does not generate that sort of impatience towards good stories, because they are all beautiful.

Pinocchio felt alien, but in a fairly interesring way. This one feels alien too, but in a much more disconnected, discombobulated way.

Perhaps one of the few "Fairy Tales for Adults" movies that keeps the whimsy of the source material. Even with the added violence and sexual content it never engages in deconstruction which is quite refreshing.

No plot, meaningless... the technical part works though

If it wants to be the "Tale of Tales", at least, it should be a tale... Or have a moral... Or make your imagination explore and explode.... It has none to do with all that.

An incredibly strange film which could have been brilliant, badly let down in the end because it simply feels like it's run out of time rather than having reached any kind of conclusion.

it was ok... the set , costume and vfx design were amazing. brilliant cinematography . captivating performances. unfortunately , in the end this is a film which fails to deliver on its own promise - to tell a good story. for a good chunk of the film I was on board - however when it became clear that the film was wrapping up and there was no really satisfying conclusion to any of the stories... it left me feeling a bit disappointed. This film is a testament to the adage that the strength of the ending of the film can really make or break the audience experience. this definitely isn't a bad film, but it is certainly not great either. For me, this is entirely due to the lack of a decent punchy ending .

I didn't understand a thing but I loved it

A film that is visually stunning but sadly rewards the viewer with very little else throughout the 125 minute running time. Most frustrating is its failure to provide a finale that makes the numerous plots meaningful and worthwhile. There is no pay-off for the time you invest into this film.