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Guillermo del Toro: “With Nightmare Alley, I realize a childhood dream”

2022-01-18T13:37:41.423Z


INTERVIEW – The Mexican filmmaker changes register and directs a dark, dark and realistic film, in the purest Hollywood tradition. Without having recourse to the fantastic or the marvellous.


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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Source: lefigaro

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