Guillermo del Toro calls Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman a “masterpiece”

Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro, who won multiple Oscars in 2017 for The Shape of Water watched Martin Scorsese‘s latest outing The Irishman that was premiered at New York Film Festival last week. While many film critics have been giving rave reviews, del Toro took to twitter where he praised Scorsese’s The Irishman, calling it a “masterpiece”. In a 13-tweet thread, Guillermo del Toro compared The Irishman to another classic, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and though he acknowledged the film’s length — bleeding over three hours is a bit much— del Toro called the film a must-see and a perfect corollary to Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino.“This film needs time. However, it has to be processed like a real mourning. It will come up in stages… I believe most of its power will sink in, in time, and provoke a true realization. A masterpiece,” del Toro tweeted. “See it. In a theatre. This movie languished in development in studio vaults for so long… having it here, now, is a miracle. And, btw- fastest 3 hours in a cinema. Do not miss it.”Apart from this, the director hailed Joe Pesci’s performance and said that Robert De Niro’s work always enthralls him. “Pesci [is] supremely minimalistic. Masterful. He is like a black hole – an attractor of planets – dark matter. DeNiro has always fascinated me when he plays characters that are punching above their true weight – or intelligence,” he added. The Irishman is slated to hit theaters on November 1 before releasing on Netflix on November 27.

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