Pan's Labyrinth
by Guillermo del Toro
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Actor: Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones, Ivana Baquero, Maribel Verd?, Sergi L?pezDirector: Guillermo del Toro
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of Pan's Labyrinth
Movie Review: This beautifully rendered film takes place in 1944 Spain
Summary: 5 Stars
Centering around a lonely 12-year old girl named Ofelia with a sickly preger mother, a sadistically cruel stepfather, and a kindly handmaiden--Ofelia escapes into a fairytale world of her imagination. Guided by a fairy she discovers an ancient, crumbling labyrinth guarded by a faun who discloses her true destiny--she is Princess Moanna--but to prove herself she must complete three increasingly challenging and dangerous tasks; The tasks have to be completed before the full moon.
The first task is to revitalize a dying fig tree. Ofelia must place three stones inside the mouth of a giant toad and retrieve a golden key. Though Ofelia completes this task, she must now deal with her mother's anger when she ruins her beautiful new dress in the process. Upon returning with the golden key, the faun instructs her to use the key inside the realm of the Pale Man. But be warned! Do not eat or drink anything from the banquet table. Nada! Nothing! Of course, Ofelia gives in to the temptation and eats from the Pale Man's table with disastrous results. Ofelia returns to an angered faun, the fighting between Captain Vidal (her stepfather) and the rebel forces intensifies while her mother becomes sicker.
Is Ofelia really Princess Moanna? Will she be able to save her mother? The cast was not only great but drew you completely into the story, and kept your interest throughout the film. You'll actually care what happens to them. There is plenty of action as well as tense moments throughout the film, and you'll just have to watch to find out what happens next. I will say you're never told for sure whether what's happening to Ofelia is real or if she has an overactive imagination. Is it really happening or is she using fairytales to distort the reality of horrors around her. The film leave this entirely up to the person watching the movie.
Summary of Pan's Labyrinth
Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil.DVD Features:
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Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro's own unlimited imagination, Pan's Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), have just moved into an abandoned mill with Carmen's new husband, Captain Vidal (Sergi L?pez, With a Friend like Harry). Carmen is pregnant with his son. Other than her sickly mother and kindly housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verd?, Y Tu Mam? Tambi?n), the dreamy Ofelia is on her own. Vidal, an exceedingly cruel man, couldn't be bothered. He has informers to torture. Ofelia soon finds that an entire universe exists below the mill. Her guide is the persuasive Faun (Doug Jones, Mimic). As her mother grows weaker, Ofelia spends more and more time in the satyr's labyrinth. He offers to help her out of her predicament if she'll complete three treacherous tasks. Ofelia is willing to try, but does this alternate reality really exist or is it all in her head? Del Toro leaves that up to the viewer to decide in a beautiful, yet brutal twin to The Devil's Backbone, which was also haunted by the ghost of Franco. Though it lacks the humor of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth represents Guillermo Del Toro at the top of his considerable game. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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