Word: guillermo
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...girl in Franco's Spain seeks refuge from her vicious militarist stepfather by retreating into a woodland wonderland. Guillermo del Toro mixes the airiest fantasy with the harshest social realism to prove that fascism is a fairy tale of power and a nightmare of terror...
...Miramax was known for working with new, talented directors ranging from Kevin Smith to Guillermo del Toro. Anyone out there now you?re keeping...
Babel is Babel indeed. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga are essentially up to the same trick they used brilliantly in Amores Perros, less so in 21 Grams--interweaving multiple stories about disparate individuals and eventually revealing their hidden connections. Since the characters are, in the present instance, operating on a global scale, some viewers will find Babel excitingly far-ranging. Others may find it merely far-fetched. Some will see the casting of Cate Blanchett as the wounded tourist and Brad Pitt as her husband as evidence that it aspires to be a major...
...Rafi (Guillermo Toledo) is, by any reasonable standard, a catch. He's a youthfully tenured university professor. Besides which, he's cute, amiable and sexy. On the face of it Leni (Marian Aguilira) has every reason to proudly bring him home to meet her family. The only catch about her catch is that he's Palestinian and they're Jewish. But she's obviously hoping that given his good nature they can all work out a two-state solution to their domestic version of the Middle East crisis...
...Another adult twist on a child's fable is Pan's Labyrinth. Writer-director Guillermo Del Toro flawlessly laces a Lewis Carroll-like fantasy of an underground kingdom into the realistic story of a sadistic officer (Sergi López) in Franco's Spain and a wily insurgent servant (Maribel Verdú), fighting for possession of a sad, dreamy child. It's got sumptuous special effects and, finally, a mournful wisdom about love, honor and death. Also a standout was Climates, from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This minor-key étude of love, sex and selfishness used minimalist strategies...