El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
Sergi López, Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero
"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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DVD Released: May 18, 2007
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June 15, 2009Not my usual movie choice, but it had great visuals, acting, and direction. I kept wanting the faun to go apeshit on somebody though.
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June 1, 2009It's one of those films that grabs you and doesn't let go. Very well done, a true film for the ages.
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February 16, 2009This movie screams: MAKE FILMS to anyone interested in telling stories.
The cinematography is hands down one of the finest use of camerawork in film's history. Creative and inspiring as all hell, this movie kicks ass. If you haven't seen this, do yourself a favor and treat you... ...( read more ) -
February 7, 2009Wow! I went in with high expectations, and I wasn't disappointed. No senseless gore at all.
The best part of the movie is that it always leaves reality up to the viewer. Is Pan really just a figment of Ofelia's imagination? If he is, how did she get into her stepdad's be... ...( read more ) -
July 3, 2009A beautifully enchanting movie, filled with magic and mystery but also giving an insight into the cruel fascist regime in Italy. You follow a girl's elegant fantasy (or alternate life?) while seeing the struggle of rebels versus the military. Even after the movie is over, you d... ...( read more )
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January 19, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
January 18, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Pan's Labyrinth is beautifully shot and designed, but it's the acting that makes it a remarkable emotional journey. full review
January 12, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Pan's Labyrinth plays with dark magic, a hideous enchantment spun with grief and torment. It is emotionally devastating and sensuously rich: Details are as sharp as the ching of a straight-edge razor,... full review
January 6, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
His palette here is deep-toned, with bottomless blacks and supersaturated oranges and blues -- as if the Walt Disney of Pinocchio had collaborated with Goya. full review
January 4, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Pan's Labyrinth artfully fuses a war film with a family melodrama and a fairy tale. The result is visually stunning and emotionally shattering. Though graphically violent in parts, it still manages t... full review
January 2, 2007
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
It is, I suspect, a film to return to, like a country waiting to be explored: a maze of dead ends and new life. full review
December 29, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Pan's Labyrinth, horrific and heartfelt in the way it sees the trauma of war through the eyes of a little girl, is some kind of great movie. full review
December 29, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Pan's Labyrinth is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's the other way around.
December 27, 2006
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
Guillermo del Toro's vision has created a film that will last: an enduring fairytale that resonates and offers new interpretations with every viewing. full review
October 13, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It's not only one of the great fantasy pictures but one of the great end-of-childhood elegies. full review
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August 8, 2008i just fell in love with this movie its just so wow its dif something i could watch over and over the only thing that could have made the movie better is if it was in english but it was still just a wonderful movie
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February 22, 2008Great movie. I love this movie, I highly recommended. This movie is a great fantasy movie.
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January 10, 2008this movie is like the best of all time!!!!!!! i'm going pans labyrinth freakish! and the faun is so cute! ;)
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November 19, 2007I Loved this movie! It had great special effects! I do think that there was a little too much violence! (of course I really didn't mind it) If you would like to see a really great fantasy movie! This is it! It is my favorite! I think it had a happy ending because the girl went with her parents instead of staying with that evil Stepfather (who died anyway) I think that she was a little stupid because she ate a grape after that faun told her not too, but I do think the guy at the table who put his eyes in his hands was awesome!!! THIS IS A MUST SEE MOVIE!
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October 26, 2007Oh god!You must see this movie,it's absolutely beautiful.And allegorical,I think,because the always die in wars.
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October 22, 2007Pretty underwhelming..
The Spirit of the Beehive (which influenced this) and Ivan's Childhood both do much better jobs at portraying the inner world of children during war.
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