Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Recommended

Spain/Mexico/USA

Feature Film

Original Title: El laberinto del fauno

Writer/Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro

Composer: Javier Navarrete

Cast: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo, Manolo Solo, César Vea, Roger Casamajor, Pablo Adán

During the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, as Franco’s soldiers roam the hills looking for any remaining pockets of resistance, Ofelia, a young girl whose father died during the war and whose mother remarried a fascist captain, disappears into a fantasy world of faun’s and fairies, where she is a long lost princess, in del Toro’s wonderfully imaginative, painfully violent, and surprisingly moving film. Iain.Stott