Guillermo Del Toro Returns to Cannes Years After 22-Minute Ovation
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Guillermo del Toro returns to Cannes years after 22-minute ovation
CANNES, France — Twenty years ago, Guillermo del Toro premiered “Pan’s Labyrinth” at the Cannes Film Festival. He went in anxious. It was toward the end of the festival and many journalists had left. The movie’s production had been a nightmare. Then the audience gave it a 22-minute standing ovation, the longest in Cannes history. “It’s a commute,” joked del Toro. “That’s about what it takes me to get from home to the office. Alfonso Cuaron, who …
Twenty years ago, Guillermo del Toro arrived at the Cannes Film Festival with uncertainty and a film whose production was plagued by financial difficulties, forest fires, and doubts about its viability. Two decades later, Pan's Labyrinth returned to the festival…
Twenty years ago, Guillermo del Toro premiered “The Labyrinth of Fauno” at the Cannes Film Festival.
Guillermo del Toro has stood out for the way he tells stories, fantasy takes her to reality and takes fiction beyond what we can imagine. One of his great works is the “Labyrinth of the Fauno”, a film that led him to be known internationally. However, the Mexican filmmaker had a terrible time doing what still remains one of his best films, something he has recognized now in Cannes, where he has presented a new restoration of it in 4K.
Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" received a standing ovation for 22 minutes when it was screened at the Riviera in 2006. A restored copy is being screened as part of the classics section at the current edition of the festival, and will also be released in theaters later this year.
Twenty years ago, Guillermo del Toro’s film “The Labyrinth of Fauno” closed the Cannes Festival and earned him 23 minutes of applause, considered the longest ovation of the meeting. Two decades later, the filmmaker returned to the festival to premiere a remastered version and confessed that the film is “the second worst film experience of his life.” “Preproduction was very difficult: nobody wanted to finance it; in production, everything that co…
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