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Article: Guillermo Del Toro drinks deep

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November 27, 2001
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"I like the symbolist school of painting a lot," says Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, whose new film, The Devils Backbone, opens today. 'When you construct a film around symbols, you reach a point where bigger symbols start to pop up, and you no longer have control over them.' Devil's Backbone leaves a number of clues to help decipher the director's intent-- that is, if you're not already seduced by its gothic Iberian charms. "When you have acts that are repeated twice, one illuminates the other," says the 37-year-old del Toro. `The story of the Spanish Civil War would illuminate a story of a ghost, and a ghost story would illuminate a war story."

Drenched in haunting amber and sepia, ...

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