As in “The Elves and the Shoemaker”, the fourth episode which is here about a struggling novelist fading into irrelevance, a lot of The Grimm Variations feels like a playful, self-aware ...

A poor shoemaker is helped out by an army of elves, but his newfound success must come at a cost, right? In The Grimm Variations: Years after his last success, washed-up writer N encounters a ...

in a brief sequence the children convey the delight and surprise of the shoemaker when he comes down the following morning to discover that someone has made a new pair of shoes for him. The elves ...