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Watch the trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing, adapted from the title story of A. S. Byatt’s collection of fairy tales for adults, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (Random House, 1997), directed by George Miller and starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
Tale of Tales is a film adaptation based on the Pentamerone, a seventeenth-century publication of fairy tales collected by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, which contains the earliest versions of stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. Directed by Matteo Garrone, the film stars Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and John C. Reilly.
