GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

2022

Netflix ÌÌÌÌÌ

Oscar-winning film-maker Guillermo del Toro ingeniously reimagines the classic fairy tale in Fascist Italy, where an entire generation of boys were having their strings pulled by Mussolini and his lackeys. It’s beautifully animated and charmingly old-fashioned, with winning vocal turns from Ewan Macgregor (as the cricket) and Tilda Swinton (as the sprite who brings the wooden boy to life).

the toast of Cannes) about the life of a cow called Luma: the milking, the grazing, the calving, and other mundane aspects of the dairy grind. It’s not an anti-livestock farming manual, nor is it a cutesy emotional rollercoaster – it’s a film of wonder and understated power.