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Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is charming with impeccable attention to detail

This Pinocchio is a story of “imperfect fathers and imperfect sons”

Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is charming with impeccable attention to detail — Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - (L-R) Gepetto (voiced by David Bradley) and Pinocchio (voiced by Gregory Mann). Picture: Netflix © 2022

Fri, 09 Dec, 2022 - 15:00

Declan Burke

★★★★☆

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG) is an animated tale that opens in 1916, with narrator, Sebastian J Cricket ( Ewan McGregor), telling how woodworker, Geppetto (David Bradley), lost his beloved son, Carlo (Gregory Mann), to a bomb dropped on their village.

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