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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
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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)
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)
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...
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)
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)
A gripping story that ends in a profoundly emotional way. Not the simple fantasy you might expect but something eternally greater. This movie is not only my 2nd favorite but one of the best films of all time.
Adult fairy tale, superbly crafted, intoxicating, original, simultaneously enchanting and dark, melds historical fact with imaginative fantasy and delves headlong into the brutality of the Spanish Civil War aftermath from an imaginative child's perspective. Great beauty, piercing...( read more)
Best Film 2006 - Best Foreign Language Film 2006 - Best Sound Editing - 2006 - Best Cinematography 2006 - Best Original Screenplay 2006 - Best Makeup 2006 -
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)
