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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Posted on January 12, 2023January 15, 2023 by Village Vidiot

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” January 12, 2023 (2022), Netflix.  It’s certainly not Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio,” although the cricket, Gepetto, and the little-carved wooden boy who come alive through magical intervention are all there.  A carnival-man replaces the con-artist of the earlier film  It won this year’s Golden Globe for best animated feature.  This stop-motion animation production  is, like the others, a story of love, greed, and selflessness, but like so much of del Toro’s work (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Shape of Water,”) is also an anti-fascist/anti-authoritarian statement.  Set in World War I and Mussolini’s Italy, it chronicles the cruelty of war and the fascists efforts to use the boy who could not die as the perfect Italian male/soldier, Pinocchio’s efforts to earn his father’s love, and Gepetto’s efforts to save his son.   A wonderful set of voices (have fun with that—I will say we loved Tilda Swinton as the Wood Sprites.)

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