|
|
Article: Guillermo del Toro: how the fable-spinning filmmaker behind the fantastical movie pan's labyrinth said yes to adventure and no to boundaries.(RENEGADE DIRECTOR SPECIAL)(Interview)
- Article from:
- Interview
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Even having lost a substantial amount of weight, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has the massive, forthright presence of a bull--a friendly bull, Ferdinand as a film director--contrasted with the amused wariness of a matador. And his easy grin and welcoming charisma belie a corrosive sense of drama, often framed with the calm of a fairy tale. Last year del Toro and his friend Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu were part of the most high-profile contingent of Mexican directors ever to hit the shores of the Cannes Film Festival. Inarritu arrived with Babel, and del Toro's contribution was the grim fable Pan's Labyrinth. Set in Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the ...