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In 1944, Ofelia and her mother and her stepfather who is a fascist commander moved to shelter at a remote location. She unexpectedly meets agricultural god, who gave her the task. If she finishes, god will bring her back to her true kingdom.
2 October 1970, Madrid, Spain
24 May 1960, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1965, Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
21 July 1986, Madrid, Spain
1914, Spain
21 September 1963, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, País Vasco, Spain
6 March 1961, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain
11 June 1994, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
31 December 1987, Madrid, Spain
September 1, 1964 in Granada, Granada, Andalucía, Spain
23 January 1969, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1 September 1964, Granada, Granada, Andalucía, Spain
1976, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1952, A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
22 December 1939, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
17 December 1976, La Seu d'Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
23 February 1936, Ramallo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1942, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
22 December 1965, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
April 15, 2016
...all the shivering intensity and satisfying denouement of the darkest Grimm's fairy tale.
May 15, 2009
Ofelia's smock is swiped from Alice, her faun from Narnia, and her magic book from Harry Potter, Del Toro sets her fairytale apart with its unrelenting gore and misery.
August 04, 2007
Pan's Labyrinth suggests that fairy-tale violence helps the vulnerable process and overcome real-life conflicts and that real-life violence permanently smashes the soul and the heart.
November 26, 2012
Guillermo del Toro has crafted a masterpiece, a terrifying, visually wondrous fairy tale for adults that blends fantasy and gloomy drama into one of the most magical films to come along in years.
February 03, 2007
So breathtaking in its artistic ambition, so technically accomplished, so morally expansive, so fully realized that it defies the usual critical blather. See it, and celebrate that rare occasion when a director has the audacity to commit cinema.
November 12, 2014
It's so audacious and so technically accomplished, and arrives here garlanded with so many radiant superlatives, that I wish I liked it more.
November 12, 2014
[del Toro's] creatures are just wondrous!
November 12, 2014
Pan's Labyrinth isn't a total success, but it confirms that del Toro is one of the few genuinely visionary directors working today. And his best may still be to come.
November 12, 2014
Bewitchingly bonkers.
November 26, 2012
This is a fantasy realm so fully and elegantly realized, it might be the adaptation of a classic novel. Yet the source is Del Toro's own capacious imagination.
January 19, 2007
A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high-mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.
