🍿 2022-06-15 20:28:00 – Paris/France.
" What a day! What a day ! », exults happily the new Pinocchio from the mind of Guillermo del Toro in the rare eight minutes broadcast exclusively on Wednesday at the Annecy International Animation Festival (France). And that's how those chosen for glory must have felt after waiting in long lines to enter the main course of the world's leading animation competition: the preview of upcoming anime releases. of Netflix and, more precisely, the presence of Guillermo del Toro ( Jalisco, Mexico, 57 years old) on stage as director of the new version of Pinochio. As the author of films such as the shape of water Is Pan's Labyrinththe only reason why he moved his "big ass" to this French city in Canada, where he shot his last animated film with the technique stop-motion, was to show fans these first working sequences "after 15 years of travel". And the room, filled to the brim, thanked him with a standing ovation and the public.
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“Each of you has a story to tell, you are a pioneer. Everyone has a goal. Yes Pinocchio It's mine, one of the most important stories of my life that I want to shoot,” described the Mexican filmmaker.
Del Toro, on stage at AnnecyFestival d'Annecy
The images showed the birth of a child of wood with a borrowed soul in a slightly more terrifying way than that of Carlo Collodi's account: the central character appears as a cluster of branches with the movements of spiders. Its creator, Geppetto, has hungover eyes instead of rosy cheeks like those of the 1940 Disney version. Del Toro had already warned him as soon as he entered the stage, walking like a dinosaur on the paper airplanes that the public of this contest is accustomed to launching on the screen before the beginning of the sessions: it is a Pinocchio very different. “It's a very personal film. There are two stories that have a great relationship with me and with my father. Frankenstein Yes Pinocchio. And both are about the importance of disobedience, the fragility of life and how death makes us human,” he explained of his new work. In Cannes, he already warned that his plot would take place, to place it in context, during the rise to power of Mussolini.
An image from 'Pinocchio', by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix.
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A story that he himself linked to two of his first films, The backbone of the devil Yes Pan's Labyrinthand you decided to continue stop motion because it's a genre “perpetually on the verge of extinction” despite being one of the most primitive forms of cinema. " When I saw King Kong [the 1933 version] I understood what it means to animate. Giving a soul to something that is not alive,” he recalled. That's what del Toro wanted to do with his film: fuel the flame that wants to take animation out of its niche and burn the “for children” label. "Let's see if they finally realize in this decade that animation isn't a fucking genre," he told an audience of converts who see animation as another way to make movies.
Geppetto by Del Toro.
This was Netflix's bet throughout its presentation. If at the last Cannes festival the platform was conspicuous by its absence, in Annecy Netflix was king. Although, as expected, there was no need to talk about the criticisms, layoffs or canceled projects that have followed this platform in recent months after the post-pandemic drop in subscriber numbers. Among the projects — where there was room, among other things, for Wendell & Wild, Veterans Henry Selick—the rapper Kid Cudi showed in person the first minutes of his entergalactic, “an analog love story in a digital world”. With a style reminiscent of Spider-Man: A New Universe Cudi summed up its plot as a "drama-free, as romantic as it gets" racial love story. When Harry Met Sally". "Everyone has a goal," Del Toro said, extending his directorial experience to anyone who, like himself, loves the medium. “Mine is to push the interpretation to the maximum. Animate silences and unnecessary gestures. Let the characters make mistakes. Give them itching and headaches.
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