Ivana Baquero

Sergi López

Maribel Verdú

Ariadna Gil

Doug Jones

Álex Angulo

Roger Casamajor

Manolo Solo

César Vea

Ivan Massagué

Gonzalo Uriarte

Eusebio Lázaro

Francisco Vidal

Juanjo Cucalón

Lina Mira

Mario Zorrilla

Sebastián Haro

Mila Espiga

Pepa Pedroche

Lalá Gatóo

Ana Sáez

Chani Martín

Milo Taboada

Fernando Albizu

Pedro G. Marzo

José Luis Torrijo

Íñigo Garcés

Fernando Tielve

Federico Luppi

Chicho Campillo

Pablo Adán

Rocío Redondo

Guillermo Navarro

Bertha Navarro

Sara Bilbatúa

Elena Manrique

Lala Huete

Héctor Gil

Víctor Albarrán

Reyes Abades

Álvaro Augustin

Frida Torresblanco

Belén Atienza

Eugenio Caballero

Guillermo del Toro

Javier Navarrete

Bernat Vilaplana

Miguel Ángel Polo

Alfonso Cuarón

Roland N. Thai

Patricia Cuevas

Óscar Abades

Raúl Monge

Jeff Barnes

Carlos Zaragoza

Mandy Goldberg

Raquel Guirro

Carlos Zamorano

Aleix Torrecillas

Steve Dellerson

Karin Marzocchini

Pedro Jesús De la Fuente

Marta Monistrol

Jorge Calvo

Alberto Feito

Laura Musso

Dana Blanco

César Abades

Mar Paradela

Borja Grandío

Ariel Margolis

Ángel Alonso

Edmundo Gil

Pilar Revuelta

Philippe Mayanobe

Doug Cram

Jesús María Antón Rodríguez

Alicia Castro Chicol

Martín Hernández

Ryan Bozajian

Pedro Calderón Muñoz

Sergio Sandoval

Lindsay M. Hoppe

James Yazbeck

Leigh van der Byl

Guiomar Alonso

José Luis Aranda

Nick Iannelli

Ron Friedman

O.D. Welch

Asun Arretxe

Dave Muscat

Edward Irastorza

Josh Heeren

Wendy Hulbert

Lap Van Luu

Chris Wallace

Grzegorz Jonkajtys

Neil Lim Sang

Antonio Arnalte

Barbara Allegue

Vivien Quetglas

David Ebner

Cristina Perales

Akira Orikasa

Tommy Williamson

Joe Fineman

George Nicholis

Felix Buenache

Brian Howard

Pedro Lozano

José Quetglás

Blanca Sánchez

Angie Jones

Jesús de la Vega

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Carmen Soriano

Fran Amaro

Jordi Casares

Marc Blanes Matas

Everett Burrell

Fantasy

Drama

El laberinto del fauno

Estudios Picasso

Esperanto Filmoj

Tequila Gang

Telecinco Cinema

Mexico

Spain

United States of America

Español

Pan's Labyrinth

princess

army

spain

fairy tale

resistance

servant

anti hero

franco regime (francoism)

woods

love

cruelty

hiding

labyrinth

magic realism

mythological

dark fairy tale

children in wartime

post spanish civil war

faun

surprise-ending

Beautiful movie from Guillermo del Toro and while I did like the movie and its World War II-era plot, I can't say I was totally in love, feeling this was more style over substance, though the acting from the young Ivana Baquero was really good. **4.0/5**

CinemaSerf

I think this is my favourite film, as yet, from Guillermo del Toro - and it gets better the more you watch it. Set against at backdrop of a Spain still trying to recover from it's civil war, the young "Ofelia" and her pregnant mother "Carmen" are sent to live with the rather brutish "Capt. Vidal". Now he is a singularly nasty piece of work and the girl longs to meet her own real father. It's in the middle of the night that "Ofelia" encounters a sprite who offers her some hope. It knows of a faun in the middle of a maze who might be able to help, and so they set of in search of this ostensibly sagely and benign creature. The meeting offers her far more than a glimmer, she need only complete three tasks and will find herself taking up her inheritance as a princess and reunited with her kingly father. What now ensues is a fairy tale full of dark magic and untrustworthy characters whom the young girl must face if she is to succeed. Given the atrocities being carried out in the real world around her, she seeks more and more solace in this nether world that is probably just as dangerous - it certainly has it's fair share of malevolence and duplicity - but with her father the ultimate goal, she perseveres with wisdom and gritty determination. What makes this work is the delicious permutations of evil it offers. Contrasting the real with the fabled, the human with the fantasy - and the decency the young girl epitomises is by no means certain of success. The visual effects cleverly integrate both of her worlds without dominating the look of the film or the potency of the story - one of love, ambition, fear, trickery. It's creatively exciting and captivating too. This is storytelling at it's best, and on a big screen can be appreciate to it's full - and dazzling - effect.

Pan's Labyrinth( 2006)

What happens when make-believe believes it's real?

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Written by JPV852 on Tue Oct 01 2019

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