Watch this when
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
He carved a son from the tree on his first son's grave, then had to learn to love the new one as he was. 🌲
Who it's for
Del Toro's Pinocchio starts from grief rather than magic: Geppetto loses his son Carlo in a bombing and, years later, carves Pinocchio from the pine that grew on Carlo's grave.
Feelings it meets
What it is
A stop-motion film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, with a screenplay by del Toro and Patrick McHale, set in Fascist Italy between the world wars. The woodcarver Geppetto, grieving his son Carlo, who was killed in a World War I bombing, carves a puppet in drunken despair from wood that grew over Carlo's grave. The Wood Sprite brings the puppet to life as Pinocchio and assigns Sebastian J.
Where to find it
Netflix (a Netflix film).
Before you start
Heads up: Child abuse and a child's death.
Age: PG (MPAA)
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti, “Remember”
