This made Mussolini's Italy a perfect backdrop for a film that tells “rhyming stories of fathers and sons.” As Del Toro points out, Geppetto and Pinocchio are not the only father-son pair ...

This made Mussolini’s Italy a perfect backdrop for a film that tells “rhyming stories of fathers and sons.” As Del Toro points out, Geppetto and Pinocchio are not the only father-son pair ...