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π–“π–Žπ–Œπ–π–™ π–Šπ–‘π–Šπ–›π–Šπ–“:

THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
(2001, dir. Guillermo del Toro)

Coming into the end of the second week of Hooptober with one of a handful of rewatches. I recently acquired all of Guillermo del Toro's "TrilogΓ­a" films (CRONOS, PAN'S LABYRINTH, and THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE) on Criterion Blu-Ray and have already watched the other two, so why not round it off with the third?

My review: https://boxd.it/4V0xsx

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A β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of The Devil's Backbone (2001)

π–π–”π–”π–•π–™π–”π–‡π–Šπ–— 𝖝 π–“π–Žπ–Œπ–π–™ π–Šπ–‘π–Šπ–›π–Šπ–“: A very rewarding rewatch! I don't think I truly understood enough about the Spanish Civil War (or world politics or anti-fascism, etc.) when I saw this 20-odd years ago to fully get what del Toro was doing here until now. He manages to ease us into a fairly elegant microcosm of the war (told within a story at that same war's fringes) by adding just the tiniest drop of magical realism that adds an extra moral and spiritual dimension to everything that happens, and it makes the allegory just *pop* in a way that a mundane

Sep 30, 2023 at 6:07pmWeb