Twenty Years After 'Pan's Labyrinth,' Del Toro Answers in Tears: 'It Pains Me Deeply to See ... Generations Fail the Next'
Guillermo del Toro arrived at the 24th Morelia Film Festival to a greeting of hordes of shrieking fans.
Asked midway through a press conference what had stayed the same and what had changed in the 20 years since “Pan’s Labyrinth,” he answered in tears. The state of our species and society today, he said, goes beyond anything they could have imagined back then — though he recognized the same sadness and despair. It pains him deeply, he added, to see one, two or three generations fail the next.
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A twentieth anniversary normally invites fond reminiscence; this one produced tears. And what comes with them is not nostalgia but an indictment: it pains him to see one, two or three generations fail the next.
His own cohort, though, includes the maker of a multi-Oscar-winning “Pan’s Labyrinth” and of “The Shape of Water,” a 2018 best picture winner. However the handover looks, that is not an empty record to pass along.