2006 · fantasy · drama · war
Pan's Labyrinth
Directed by Guillermo del Toro1h 58m2006
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Our read: Pan's Labyrinth (2006) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive fantasy · drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, extreme fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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