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Ivan Baena Delgado,
Jose Manuel Cerdan,
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Guillermo Del Toro,
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: New Line Home Video
: Drama, Foreign, Suspense/Thriller, Fantasy, Lost Worlds, Latin America, Mexico
: Spanish
: English, Spanish
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Pan's Labyrinth (Special Edition) (2006)
Journey into a world of extravagant imagination as a dark fable comes to life in the fantasy thriller Pans Labyrinth. Winner of three Academy Awards®, Pans Labyrinth will be available in a two-disc edition DVD. Directed by award-winning writer and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Blade II), the film traces the fate of an innocent child as she seeks refuge from fear, loneliness and the violence of war in both her real and imagined existence through an elaborate and magical fantasy world. Unlock the enchanting secrets of the labyrinth with DVD bonus features including audio and video commentary from Guillermo del Toro, never-before-seen featurettes and filmmaker interviews.
Pan's Labyrinth (Special Edition) (Bonus Disc) (2006)
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom. Her mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil), recently remarried to sadistic army captain Vidal (Sergi López) and soon to bear the cruel military man's child, shy young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is forced to entertain herself as her recently-formed family settles into their new home nestled deep in the Spanish countryside. As Ofelia's bed-ridden mother lies immobilized in anticipation of her forthcoming child and her high-ranking stepfather remains determined to fulfill the orders of General Francisco Franco to crush a nearby guerilla uprising, the young girl soon ventures into an elaborate stone labyrinth presided over by the mythical faun Pan (Doug Jones). Convinced by Pan that she is the lost princess of legend and that in order to return to her underground home she must complete a trio of life-threatening tasks, Ofelia sets out to reclaim her kingdom and return to her grieving father as Vidal's housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verdú) and doctor (Alex Angulo) plot secretly on the surface to keep the revolution alive. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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by Moriarty
May 18, 2007 - 1:11 PM PDT
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7 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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Director Guillermo Del Toro described this movie as a fairy tale for adults. I have to agree with him. The world he has created is beautiful, imaginative and horrific. His fairies, faun and giant toad are some of the most spectacular effects I've seen in movies in a while. I think with the current glut of CGI in movies and TV we've forgotten just how much of an impact a physical character can have. It makes the contrast between the real world and his fantasy world all the more vivid. Because the characters are actually there you aren't yanked out of the story by some cheesy computer graphics.
You may be tempted to rent this movie and watch it with your children after seeing the previews. I cannot stress enough that this is not a movie for children. There are scenes in it that contain brutal violence. And I mean it when I say that more than once both my girlfriend and myself found ourselves squirming in our seats due to some particularly graphic scenes.
We both however really liked this movie. Yes there were some parts that were hard to watch, but overall the movie was very good. It is a fairly tale more in the Brothers Grimm vein than Disney. I think this was a good movie, and good movies don't always leave with a warm and fuzzy feeling. |
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