Pinocchio 4K 2019 ITALIAN Ultra HD 2160p

The world famous story will unfold again on the screen in a light in which you have never seen it. Spectators will have an enchanting journey into the world of magical creatures and amazing substances, where even a simple wooden doll can acquire a human body. It is enough just to wish it from a pure heart.

Pinocchio 4K Review
An old woodcarver named Gepetto has nothing to eat at all, he is lonely, poor and unhappy. But then a theater of wooden puppets comes to the city, for the entrance to which Gepetto does not have enough coins, but, blinded by the beauty of the puppets, he decides to make his own. A carpenter friend gives the old man an enchanted log, which becomes the basis for "the most beautiful doll in the world." At the end of the work, Gepetto realizes that the doll is not only beautiful, but also speaking. And also completely ungrateful and incredibly childish. The woodcarver calls the doll Pinocchio, with awakened fatherly feelings, he buys an ABC book for his newly made son (selling the only jacket) and sends it to school. Pinocchio is not up to school at all, having exchanged the primer for a ticket to the puppet theater, the wooden boy is captured by Karabas-Barabas and sets off on a journey that should turn him from a piece of log into a real boy.

Mateo Garrone's "Pinocchio" is about what you imagined it to be: beautiful, frightening and fabulous in the most Old Believer sense of the word. The Italian visionary, who not so long ago alarmed everyone with "Scary Tales", lives outside the Disney tendencies of sterilizing an initially gloomy source, but on the contrary, reveals all the beauty of the original fairy tale, with all the nightmarish details, from a "sharp log" to upset hares with an empty coffin. The decision to shoot the film as close as possible to the original idea of ​​Carlo Collodi, oddly enough, looks innovative against the backdrop of endless Disney reinterpretations of classic fairy tales, from which the audience, to put it mildly, got tired.

Garrone first of all masterfully works with the form: the talking tuna, cricket, granny-snail and all the puppets are played by the actors, while they are jumping merrily on the screen, the viewer can only frantically check his head for signs of mild schizophrenia. At the same time, the film adaptation inherited from the original not only the scary characters, but also the touching naivety of the narrative. The stunning Roberto Benigni, with a black belt for the unbearable lightness of being, the role of Dzepetto is so close to the face that it is impossible to imagine not a single actor in his place. Benigni can be called the heart of this film, although the actor does not have much screen time, his every appearance just screams about love and fills the space with warmth.

In general, the picture is, of course, about fathers and children, about a long road to mutual understanding and connection of boomers and buzzers. Pinocchio's long journey to get rid of infantilism in an attempt to become a real boy was done by each of us, except that in real life there were no fairies and talking crickets (which is a pity). Maybe the worst thing in the film is not the entourage, but the sheer lack of empathy of the protagonist, or these are extreme situations that help Pinocchio learn her. One way or another, all two hours of the journey from a cozy house to the mouth of a sperm whale and back rush like two minutes, because the amazing world created by Garrone is breathtaking with such force that you no longer want to return from it. The old-fashioned, but still relevant, narrative in a beautiful new CGI wrapper will melt all the ice in the chest, making Pinocchio the perfect family movie.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10+
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
Italian: Dolby Digital

Subtitles
English, German