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Cronos

La invención de cronos

1993

Guillermo del Toro

Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel ...

6.2

8,805

Fantasy. Horror In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is the stuff of classic horror films, and 'Cronos' (...) combines it with a colorful Latin magic realism (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Trevor Johnston Time Out	"A most startling genre piece: tender, imaginative and wholly its own."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A very stylish and sophisticated Mexican variation on some age-old themes (...) Suffused with clever ambiguities and staged with unexpected grace"	POS
United Kingdom	Steve Beard Empire	"This is a wonderfully baroque, gleeful subversion of the days of Hammer. A unique, terrifying mini-masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Heath Jr. Slant	"The tension between history, science, and religion becomes increasingly palpable (...) 'Cronos' represents a filmmaker joyously conducting a symphony of tones interlocking with cinematic details (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Harrington The Washington Post	"So well conceived and executed that it satisfies both mainstream and art-film expectations"	POS

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