Pan’s Labyrinth

Posted 28 January 2007 in Screening log

Rating

[El Laberinto del fauno]

2006 - Spain

Director
Guillermo Del Toro

Starring
Ivana Baquero

Well this was everything I expected it to be — and more, honestly… I think it is the perfect combination of classical fairy tale themes and the subversion of the same, offset by the true horrors of reality. Gutwrenching, visceral, emotionally exhausting. The ending pretty much killed me, & that’s what I like in my movies.

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