Simona Ghizzoni The fever that turns Pinocchio into a donkey is his punishment for skipping school and running off to Playland. He’d been warned by a talking cricket: “You poor little sucker!

Where his heart should be there's a hole, and inside a judgemental cricket has nested. This Pinocchio is not the ... this film's spooky version of a blue fairy, while Cate Blanchett's silky ...