Paste's best movies of the year: TaraDBennett on Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, the perfect culmination of a 2022 filled with stop-motion animation
with Selick for Netflix, and Guillermo del Toro joining veteran Mark Gustafson to co-direct their vision of. Each is a testament to the enduring, active admiration it requires to keep this medium alive, just in 2022 alone, while also being love letters to the art and practice of intricate precision and boundless cinematic vision.
For one, there’s no better marriage of story and medium than telling Pinocchio’s story in stop-motion. The craft itself creates a wholly unique, tactile connection between Geppetto’s wood-carving gifts and what he imbues into his wooden son .
in the craft of stop-motion with the beating heart of their emotional storytelling. Together, they honor the painstaking work of the animators and production and set designers by giving them a story worth telling in such a fastidious way. Making the choice to have Geppetto be a broken, flawed father who doesn’t see the joy in getting a second chance with Pinocchio until it’s almost too late—making his journey just as vital as his son’s.
Visually, all those choices are backed by thrilling production and character design that folds in del Toro’s familiar themes: The pure hearts of vulnerable children; fantastical creatures representing death and decay; the villainy of ego, corruption, and religion’s unrelenting judgment and lack of compassion. In truth, stop-motion may be the seminal playground that welcomes, and requires, del Toro’s signature reckless abandon into the pure pleasure of hyper-detailed aesthetics.
Tara Bennett is a Los Angeles-based writer covering film, television and pop culture for publications such asSons of Anarchy, Outlander, Fringe, The Story of Marvel Studios
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