Four years after receiving the Oscar for best film for
The Shape of Water
, Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro returns with
Nightmare Alley
, a dark fable, paying homage to film noir, set in the 1930s and 1940s, which puts starring Bradley Cooper as a mentalist devoured by ambition.
Always so voluble and warm, even by Zoom, the director of Pan
's
Labyrinth,
Cronos
and
The Devil's Backbone
lends himself with sincerity and a touch of mischief to the game of the truth interview.
LE FIGARO.
- What attracted you to this rather dark project?
Guillermo DEL TORO.
-
I have always liked the novel and black cinema, as well as horror films.
Young, I read everything I could find, Chandler, Hammett, James Hadley Chase.
In France, I love Simenon and Boileau-Narcejac.
In Italy, Carlotto.
In Spain I like Andrea Martin and in Mexico I read the whole Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
What prompted you to adapt William Lindsay Gresham's novel,
Nightmare Alley
?
After…
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