Guillermo del Toro’s love of the weird makes it forgivable that his Pinocchio doesn’t totally live up to its initial promise of savoring the darker riches of this story. Our review.
It’s the animation that makes even the dull stretches worth it. The movie is beautiful. This take on the Pinocchio puppet reminds us, among other things, that he’s made of wood. He looks and moves and creaks and breaks like wood. He’s got knots for eyes and an entire personality carved into his body by benefit of the fractal patterns in the pine wood used to make him. He’s got the kind of thin awkwardness befitting a puppet, the kind where the head looks too heavy for the body.
And yet there’s a real boyishness to him, somehow — here and throughout, with every character, the animators clearly took care to master the expressiveness of the eyes, the natural flow of movement. The visual details overwhelm the movie’s flaws. The gunky innards of the dogfish, the chimera-like Death’s crystal-sharp features, the painstaking texture of a mere pine cone — this is the stuff that makessing. The story’s detours don’t entirely pan out.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Alexandre Desplat scores 'joyous melancholy' in Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'Guillermo del Toro's new film, 'Pinocchio,' hovers between joy and sadness. So does the music by French composer Alexandre Desplat — performed, appropriately, entirely on wooden instruments.
Lire la suite »
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Review: A Labor of LoveFor the second time this year, the world is watching a story about a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio tells a tale as old as time. Since Carlo Collodi’s The Adventure of Pinocchio novel came out in 1883, this iconic story has been a staple of many lives, whether through the […]
Lire la suite »
Every Guillermo del Toro Movie, RankedBreaking down the genre master’s filmography, from Pan’s Labyrinth to his new Pinocchio.
Lire la suite »
Guillermo del Toro Agrees With Miyazaki: Animation Created by AI and Machines Is an ‘Insult to Life Itself’Guillermo del Toro echoed the words of Hayao Miyazaki when recently asked by Decider about animation created from artificial intelligence sources and machines: “It’s an insult to life i…
Lire la suite »
Club Q shooting survivors tell U.S. Congress that anti-LGBTQ rhetoric encourages violenceTo the frustration of many Democrats, the year-end agenda doesn’t include legislation to ban semiautomatic firearms due to firm Republican opposition.
Lire la suite »