PAN'S LABYRINTH

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth

Summary

Pan's Labyrinth is an R-rated fairy tale (the scenes of violence and some language). She intertwines the brutal realities of Spain in 1944 at the end of the Spanish Civil War with the underground world of fantasy inhabited by magical creatures, including a large, goat faun (Doug Jones) and fairylike insect, which is part of Mantis, part of Tinker Bell.

The central character is a charming young girl, Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), whose new stepfather cruel fascist captain (Sergi Lopez I ayat) sniffing out anti-Franco guerrillas in the mountains. Ofelia's mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil) is suffering through ...