Even harder than finding the perfect Christmas gifts is finding the perfect movie for a night to remember on Netflix. Good news, the streaming platform has just put Guillermo del Toro’s new creation online which, if we are to believe the first reactions, might well be THE film of the year not to be missed.
Wooden puppet fans were doubly spoiled this year. While Disney recently teamed up with Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks to adapt the famous cartoon into live-action Pinocchio from 1940, Guillermo del Toro has collaborated with Netflix to bring his version of this fantastic story to life, just weeks following having thrilled us with his cabinet of curiosities.
A shocking reinvention of Pinocchio
And if we trust the first reactions of subscribers on social networks, the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and of The Shape of Water once once more conquered the public. Where Disney’s version was quickly mocked for its laziness and artistic weakness, the Mexican filmmaker’s work managed to touch everyone’s hearts.
It must be said that for this project, Guillermo del Toro did not skimp on the means. Between a production carried out in stop-motion with sublime articulated characters created in an artisanal way in order to be closer to its subject, and a much darker and more accurate approach to the story of Carlo Collodi, this adaptation is a visual nugget. which fills our eyes and our heads. It’s beautiful, it’s powerful, it’s sincere… the director offers us a little masterpiece of which he alone has the secret. Forget everything you thought you knew regarding this tale, this feature film will…
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