Guillermo del Toro’s latest fantasy film PAN’S LABYRINTH is a wonderment of the imagination and a descent into the brutality of human nature all from the point of view of Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) an orphaned little girl who is forced to move to the new home of her step father Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez) whose assignment is to rid the hills of refugees after the war. Making the transition to the new home even worse for Ofelia is the fact that her mother is pregnant and the journey to the new home has made her weak and has put her unborn child at risk.
In the tradition of Grimm’s fairy tales, del Toro has crafted an adult horror fantasy like none other. Ofelia travels to different worlds within our own that unravels the dark recesses that lay just on the surface of the known world. By paralleling the fantasy world with that of the real world del Toro crafts a complex narrative that blurs the imagination and defies you not to believe in the unbelievable.
Like his previous film THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE del Toro mixes real world events into his narrative to create an uncanny portrait of life through the eyes of the young. He creates not only an adult-world view for the young but delivers a portrait of childhood and fantasy that we, as adults, may have forgotten. The real world may be bleak but our imaginations are our true salvation. As a filmmaker del Toro is one of the few that can navigate in this arena (Terry Gilliam being and Tim Burton being only two more).
The film is brought to life by frequent del Toro collaborator Guillermo Navarro behind the cinematography and with original music by Javier Navarrete.
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