<P> Tale of Tales (Italian: Il racconto dei racconti) is a 2015 European dark fantasy film, directed by Matteo Garrone, starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and John C. Reilly . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> It is a screen adaptation based on collections of tales by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile: Pentamerone or Lo cunto de li cunti (Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones), which contains the earliest versions of famous fables like Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella . </P> <P> The Baroque stories manage to mix real and surreal with many metaphorical usages . Pentamerone was a 17th - century collection of Italian fairytales . </P>

What fairy tales are tale of tales based on