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Guillermo del ToroCinematography:
Guillermo NavarroCast:
Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Farnesio de Bernal (more)VOD (4)
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Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious and audacious feature debut with Cronos, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel (a delightfully crude and deranged Ron Perlman). Featuring marvelous special makeup effects and the haunting imagery for which del Toro has become world-renowned, Cronos is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy. (Criterion)
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Del Toro’s feature length debut can have as many positive aspects as it likes (and there definitely has a few). It could be the most interesting (which it is), original (in places we could claim that), well acted and full of movie buff enthusiasm (the Blade Runner bit is excellent). But in my eyes, this still doesn’t make it a good movie and never will. Due to the pace. Chronos works as a sure-fire sleep potion that not even the nighttime streaming from the house of representatives or counting any number of sheep can counter. P.S.: The bonuses on the special edition are more entertaining than the movie itself.
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Del Toro's Spanish-language films have a lot in common – the child at the center of the action who knows more and is generally wiser than the surrounding adult characters, an insect in center frame, or the absence of authorities/environmentalists who have the ability to resolve the situation from an outside pragmatic perspective. Cronos is something of a family horror film (despite a decent bloodiness) with very sensitive cinematography and surprisingly intricate camerawork for a debut. As with all of del Toro's horror films, it's not particularly about fear, but about the interplay between man and the supernatural, with both having something in store for the other.
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Cronos is an intelligent and absorbing psychological horror movie about a small ancient device that sucks blood and its victim, an old grandfather who gradually succumbs to its seductive destruction. Guillermo del Toro had it together early in his career.
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