A self-taught critic and genuine movie geek
The desert does strange things to people, it seems. Even in the short term it can mess you up, so just imagine what can happen if you actually live there, like many of the characters in Betrothed do. However bad you’re thinking, it’s worse.
Once upon a time, Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone decided to make a movie in English. Not just any movie in English, though — this one weaves together three Italian fairy tales that were collected by Giambattista Basile in a book called The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones. Basile was one of the people who inspired the Brothers Grimm to collect the folk tales of Germany before it was Germany.
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