Pan's Labyrinth / El Laberinto del Fauno (The Labyrinth of the Faun)
2006
Guillermo del Toro (director, writer)
Starring Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi Lopez
This film deserves every glory it won: it is beautiful, it is wildly
imaginative, it is captivating, and it is ruthlessly painful.
It is
physically brutal, set during the Spanish Civil War, and emotionally
brutal; it is frightening in many different ways, but it gives as much
as it takes, and it is unrelentingly brilliant. It has a
vocabulary, visual and thematic, that encompasses nearly every major
work of children's fantasy of the last century, and not just books:
Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Narnia, the Labyrinth (of course), the
Neverending Story, a dozen others. The cinematography and special effects are hauntingly beautiful and well-woven.
But this is not a children's movie.
This is a dark and powerful film, and you should absolutely see it but
know that it is not a pretty story.
In Spanish with subtitles. Rated R with good reason.
IMDB Link: Pan's Labyrinth
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