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War story: A girl's fantasies get her through turbulent times.
Byline: Jeff Simon
Jan. 19--Suddenly, it seems, the most interesting young directors in the world -- by far -- come from Mexico. Specifically, I'm talking about Alfonso Cuaron ("Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Children of Men"), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel," "Amores Perros," "21 Grams") and, now, Guillermo Del Toro, whose movie "Pan's Labyrinth" opens today. Here is a film that so desperately wants to be great that it almost succeeds. At the very least, it resembles no other World War II film that you will easily recall. (Certainly no other recent one.) It's about a forlorn little Spanish girl whose beloved pregnant mother has just married the fascist ...
- Reality and fairy tale: Magic meets Franco's Spain in del Toro's 'Pan's...
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 19, 2007 700+ words
...It marks Guillermo del Toro as a moviemaking fabulist...fuss, Ofelia enters a fairy-tale kingdom that will name...simple about the way del Toro follows these plot lines...instead of a hatchet, del Toro takes apart patriarchy...
- 3 directors fuel Latin film renaissance: Cuaron, del Toro, and Inarritu are key...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) January 14, 2007 700+ words
...Tambien (made at the insistence of del Toro, who provided the ending...and masterful) of the three, del Toro's dark fairy tale Pan's Labyrinth, opens; it...What you see is urgency," said del Toro, 42. "We defined our films...
- Guillermo del Toro: how the fable-spinning filmmaker behind the fantastical...
- Magazine article from: Interview Mitchell, Elvis March 1, 2007 700+ words
...writer-director Guillermo del Toro has the massive, forthright...framed with the calm of a fairy tale. Last year del Toro and his friend Alejandro...out of fear. GUILLERMO DEL TORO: Not so much out of fear...read any of the great fairy tale
- Welcome to the decade of del Toro
- Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail GEOFF BOUCHER July 3, 2009 700+ words
...yourselves for the Decade of del Toro. On the far side of the...filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is in his seventh month...The 44-year-old del Toro, who was Oscar nominated for the dark fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth...
- A dark fairy tale that's simply magic.
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) December 29, 2006 700+ words
...LABYRINTH (R). Director Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy") has fashioned...as it may be to watch Guillermo del Toro's dark fairy tale unravel, one comes away from...goat figure -- (Doug Jones from del Toro's underrated 2004 comic-book...
- Dark fantasies of a Mexican auteur: AS GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S FILM PLACES LITTLE...
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) January 8, 2007 700+ words
...crazier than the others." Del Toro felt the filmed adaptations...be eaten by beasts," del Toro says, "and out of this...powerful, was missing from fairy tale movies." To make sure...missing from his movie, del Toro has made the violence...
- Del Toro noses around 'Pinocchio'.
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McNary, Dave November 17, 2008 700+ words
Guillermo del Toro's developing with the Jim Henson...darker version of the "Pinocchio" fairy tale as a stop-motion feature. Project...along with senior VP Jason Lust. Del Toro will exec produce. Del Toro's working on the screenplay with...
- A surreal journey enters the realm of adult fairy tale.(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT) January 11, 2007 700+ words
...Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has created something that is...perhaps best described as an adult fairy tale. Del Toro's career up until now has been...Labyrinth" is a big step forward for Del Toro that brings all of his gifts...
