“A story you probably think you know, but you really don’t.” the more poetic and mature Carlo Collodi tale is revived under the direction of Guillermo del Toro. A sensitive reading of a great classic to discover on Netflix.
Barely three months after Robert Zemeckis’ Disney+ version with Tom Hanks, Netflix is also offering its own adaptation: Pinocchio, A famous tale by Carlo Collodi, written in 1881. In the control room, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro The form of waterand Mark Gustafson reimagines the doll’s story stop-motion (stop-motion animation, with objects and figurines). While the markers of the fable are all present (the sea monster, the growing nose, the traveling theater, several musical numbers…), the duo takes a few liberties with the original material. The historical context changes, anchoring in Mussolini’s fascist Italy. Geppetto lost the first child killed in the bombing. The blue fairy has a “twin”, a kind of angel of death… This reading by the Mexican filmmaker is also much more melancholy and dark than the famous Disney studio classic released in 1940, behind the humor, hope and tenderness. in the present, a meditation on mourning, acceptance of difference, and the monstrosity of humans is taking shape. Something to sensitize adults to this story that has been revisited many times.
Source: Le Figaro
