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Film · 2006 · Fantasy
Pan's Labyrinth
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
2006
★ 8.5 editorial score
Del Toro put a child's fairy tale and Franco's Spain in the same film and refused to make either one safer: the creature with eyes in its hands follows people home.
“Set in a dark Spanish forest in a very dark time — 1944, when Spain was still in the early stages of the fascist nightmare from which the rest of Europe was painfully starting to awaken — "Pan’s Labyrinth" is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it’s the other way around...The brilliance of "Pan’s Labyrinth" is that its current of imaginative energy runs both ways.”
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