(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 25 - "There are only two stories worthy of being told in any form: the story of a character who gets everything he wants, and the story of another who loses everything".
Word of Guillermo del Toro who in the film THE FAIR OF ILLUSIONS - NIGHTMARE ALLEY tells both things.
And this after an incipit that is a long descent into hell in that kind of secular church that is ilcirco, where mystery is at home together with freaks, mentalists, horror tunnels and addictions.
And del Toro tells all this with a moral fable in which the villain is inevitably a victim of himself and in which there is a sin and a sinner without redemption, but not without punishment.
The film, in cinemas from January 27 with Walt Disney Pictures, scripted by del Toro himself together with Kim Morgan, and based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham more than on the 1947 film by Edmund Goulding, has as protagonist a man without God, or the charismatic Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper).
A man "who brings trouble", as defined by the seductive clear-sighted Zeena (Toni Collette) who together with her husband Pete (David Strathairn), a former mentalist in an itinerant amusement park, initiates him into the world of the circus and above all to cheat others by making them believe they are interpreting the present and past.
And Zeena will be only the first of the three dark ladies, in this noir film signed by the Mexican director, to accompany Stanton on the road to evil.
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