Pan's Labyrinth (2006) starring Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. In 1944 in Franco's Spain, the triumphant forces of Fascism set up outposts to hunt down the Communist guerrillas who continue to resist. The brutal Fascist Captain Vidal (Lopez) commands a mountain garrison, where his new wife and young stepdaughter Ofelia (Baquero) have come to stay with him. Ofelia escapes the violence around her by drifting into a fantasy world where she is a princess given three tasks by a mysterious faun who lives underground at the center of a labyrinth. In the end, I had the feeling that I had seen something profound and moving. But what does it all mean? I couldn't say. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Grade: A-
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