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Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1972) Luigi Comencini; Gina Lollobrigida
Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1972) Luigi Comencini; Gina Lollobrigida
 
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In Italian with English subtitles.

Writer/director Luigi Comencini originally created Le Avventure di Pinocchio as a five-and-a-half-hour miniseries for Italian television. This 134-minute version, featuring various guest stars, was released theatrically. Pinocchio (Andrea Balestri) is a wooden puppet carved by Geppetto (Nino Manfredi), who is turned into a little boy by a magical fairy (Gina Lollobrigida). She insists that he be obedient and loving to his father Geppetto, but the rebellious Pinocchio tries to live independently -- and encounters many ordeals, from being turned into a donkey to getting swallowed by a whale. After he and Geppetto escape from the whale, can Pinocchio be the good son his father deserves?

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4 of 5 Charming December 12, 2018
Reviewer: Patrick Hunter from Panorama City, CA United States  
This life-action telling of the story is still more Disney than Collodi, but has its moments.

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4 of 5 Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1972) Luigi Comencini; April 13, 2018
Reviewer: Robert Altieri from SIMI VALLEY, CA United States  
Thanks for the many Gina Lollobrigida movies I have purchased. Your customer service is great.

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5 of 5 First-rate live action version of Pinocchio March 23, 2016
Reviewer: Kenneth Orme from Ligonier, PA United States  
The Italian television mini-series production of THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO is graced with two outstanding lead performances, one from Nino Manfredi as Geppeto, the other from Andrea Balestri in the role of the boy Pinocchio. With a teleplay hewing close to the serial original and production design reflecting the endemic poverty of rural Italy, this film interposes neo-realism with dollops of escapist fantasy. Fiorenzo Carpi's music is also commendably evocative. Highly recommended, with outstandingly crisp editing, a fine compression of a 324 minute original.

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5 of 5 A delight February 18, 2016
Reviewer: Anonymous Person from Homestead, FL United States  
from beginning to end.  I don't know if it's faithful to Collodi's story but it's so tender,sweet and funny that it doesn't matter.
It is also a treat to see Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio de Sica in such a movie.  The Pinocchio character is moving: he loves his dad and his fairy, but he insists in doing his own.  We all know his kind.

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