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...first hour, Once You're Born has echoes of another Italian fable, Pinocchio -the story of a sweet-souled, rather unformed lad who is misled by two villains, has a near-death water adventure and learns what it means to be human. Giordana, whose six-hour The Best of Youth is currently enchanting U.S. art-house audiences, here expertly creates an aura of family love that any child would be sick to be so suddenly and violently removed from. Then, instead of allowing the ecstatic exclamation point of a simple, hugging resolution to Sandro's maritime ordeal, he introduces question...
...That's where the originality and bravery of this film lies. It grows beyond a simple Pinocchio parable to see that people are not all good or bad, that the young man who saves one life can easily corrupt another. Radu is not Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader. He's capable, as we all are, of being both...
...expensive nowadays to attempt the miraculously detailed subtlety of Pinocchio, which remains the masterpiece of the Disney manner. But the new boys know how to create wonderful transformations in a character's expression with a deft stroke or two, and they have mastered the deliciously parodistic plasticity required by the movements of their ever twisting-turning-tumbling creatures. Their pastoral scenes still glow with the old Disney sweetness, and the ones of foreboding glower with the old relish for the grotesque. They satisfy an older viewer's nostalgic feeling for his childhood's delight while fulfilling the younger crowd...
...Without their parents there this became like Pinocchio's Pleasure Island." KIKI FOURNIER, a former housekeeper for Michael Jackson, testifying at the singer's sexual-abuse trial that she saw boys staying at his Neverland ranch who appeared to be drunk
WALT DISNEY HAD a cunning formula: use the highest illustrative art to make horror movies for kids. Next to Pinocchio (play hooky and you will morph into a donkey), Bambi is the most artful and potent--and the scariest--of Walt's early features. After the youngsters have watched a movie in which a child sees its mother shot and killed, the grownups can stay around to see deleted scenes and ancient storyboards. Later, the kids can play the eight interactive games...