El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)

El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)

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El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's ...

Sergi López, Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Álex Angulo, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil

"Pan's Labyrinth" is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother's new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco's victory. The girl live...( read more  read more... )s in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.

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  • November 3, 2009
    A girl ,obsessed with fairy tales and living with a sadistic stepfather who hunts Communist guerrillas in post-Civil War Spain, is informed by a faun that he will restore her to her throne as an immortal fairy princess if she can complete three tasks. This would have made an exc...( read more)ellent movie if it had been written as either a dark childhood fantasy or a wartime drama; seamlessly mixing the two plotlines together turns it into a work of pure genius. The Pale Man and the Captain are two of the most frightening monsters seen on the screen this decade.
  • October 25, 2009
    A very unique and outstanding attempt on the combination of an adult fairy tale and realistic resistance war story. Director Del Toro manages to merge those two very different aspects into a very moving, exciting and entertaining movie with wonderful effects and design. Definitel...( read more)y not a movie for children, though. The maneater sequence is one of the most terrifying scenes of recent movie history. But somehow, as well made as all this is, I had a hard time loving the movie. Maybe because it's just so damn sad. That should not stop anyone from seeing this.
  • September 8, 2009
    While I have REAL problems with the second task Ophelia was given, I think this is a well made movie. I'd like to see it a few more times, before I make my final verdict...
  • September 1, 2009
    I was absolutely blown away by this film. Being a huge fan of Cronos, I'd hoped Guillermo del Toro would return more to his roots in direction. Don't get me wrong, I love Hellboy, its just that this is what he does best. Brilliant, possibly the best film so far this decade/Millen...( read more)nium.
  • August 4, 2009
    A very enjoyable film, that is well directed and has all round good production levels. It's almost like two films in one running side by side. It would have been a bit more interesting to see more of the fantasy characters and their world in which they live in. The film can be qu...( read more)ite bloody and violent at times to which was a surprise, this is definitely for an adult audience.
  • November 7, 2009
    Very good story, the fachist context making this fable more thrilling
  • November 6, 2009
    Pienso que la película es muy buena y revela cierta realidad alla por el 36" en España, pero me parece un poco extraño que la niña pase imaginando que su mama es una reina y bla bla bla mientras la guerra civil hasta donde yo entiendo (no soy de españa) se desatò contra los poder...( read more)es de la monarquía y del mismismo franco que estaba ahí..entonces no entiendo; si la película refleja a los anarquistas y comunistas como los revolucionarios inocentes...por qué la niña pasa pensando en una hermosa monarquía a su alrededor??...no quiero ir mas a fondo porque es solo supuestamente en la mente de una niña, pero creo que a alguien que no supiera sobre la revoluciòn del 36 quedaría un poco confundido e imaginaria que franco era un izquierdista o algo asi jajaja....pero en fin la historia y los efectos me parecen buenos, y la combinación de cuento de hadas con la realidad me parece muy original..lastima esas cositas confusas, pero en fin es una película no una clase de historia asi que merece sus 7/10 bien merecidos
  • November 5, 2009
    i love the way the faun looks







    i liked this movie alot and the charaters were awesome
  • November 5, 2009
    Amazing, Imaginative, the music is absolutely Beautiful.... This is a Must-See !!
  • November 4, 2009
    Another fav of mine i cant write anything to do it justice exept you must watch it yourself but remeber that its not a childs film at all!!!!

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