Spanish fantasy story directed by Guillermo del Torro ('Cronos') with
stunning sets, shocking scenes and effects - set in the mind's eye of a
lonely young girl. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is a young girl in a remote
mountain village in Spain in 1944 after Franco's ascension to power. To
escape the upheaval and hardship her family faces (her father died in
the war and her mother (Ariadna Gil) has been forced to re-marry to a
despotic Captain in Franco's fascist army), Ofelia creates a world in
her mind.
It's a beautiful place though not without its dark
side but she's guided by a ghastly yet kindly fawn creature. The
Captain, it soon transpires, is more interested in the son Ofelia's
mother is carrying, than he is in either Ofelia or her mother. Mercedes
(Maribel Verdú), the Captain's considerate servant, and Dr.
Ferreiro the Captain's physician, are, it transpires, in league with the
revolutionaries in the woods surrounding the army encampment. These
resistance fighters are intent on liberating the rationed food and
medicines they need. As the increasingly manic and paranoid captain
assassinates anyone who looks at him the wrong way with alarming
regularity, Ofelia's secret quests set by the fawn creature to unlock
the portal to another world become more and more urgent.
Pan's Labyrinth
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