

His 2015 R-rated adaptation of 17th-century poet Giambattista Basile's "Tale of Tales" featured John C. He (Petrone) brings me luck."Ĭareful viewers can spot Petrone as a bartender in "Reality" and as a ticket taker in "Pinocchio." The thinner one (Petrone) could be Pinocchio.

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They have the reference of 'Scarface.' They think they are in a movie in a way. "They are following an illusion," he says. If the comparison sounds weird, the "Gomorrah" is the story of two teens (Ciro Petrone and Marco Macor) who imagine they are hard core gangsters when they obtain firearms. He mixes realism and the dimension of magic." "When I tell fairy tales, I like an approach that's very realistic and to mix realistic and supernatural dimensions, like in the book of Collodi. I think in a way, 'Pinocchio' is not so far away from 'Gomorrah.' In parts of 'Gomorrah,' I saw how dramatic the decisions can be that the kids take and how having the wrong model that can destroy you. The lesson of Collodi in 'Pinocchio' is to teach the kids how dangerous can be the world around you, without following the advice of the people around who love you. "It's true that certain parts of 'Gomorrah' were a dark fairy tale. "There is something of 'Pinocchio' in the other movies I have done," he says by phone from his native Rome.
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If most of Garrone's previous movies are set in a grim world free of magic, he explains that the themes and approach are remarkably similar. If you follow his directorial career closely, however, it's not surprising that his latest effort is a new adaptation of Carlo Collodi's 1883 fairy tale "Pinocchio." Matteo Garrone won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his 2008 gangster drama "Gomorrah" and has received similar acclaim for his black comedy "Reality," about a would-be "Big Brother" contestant and "Dogman," about a dog sitter who supplements his income by peddling cocaine.
