Review: 'book' Brims With 'life'

By Randy MyersSan Jose Mercury News corre, San Jose Mercury News: Movies
Wed, 10/15/2014 - 4:05pm

The visually stunning children's film produced by Guillermo del Toro, 'Life' transports us to a Tolkien-sized world anchored around an annual tradition in the Latino world and affectionately illuminates the symbolic nature of the celebration that finds the living recalling and reconnecting with the dead.

Topics: life guillermo toro tolkien-sized latino world

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