2006 ‘El laberinto del fauno’ Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
Ivana Baquero Maribel Verdú Sergi López Doug Jones Ariadna Gil Álex Angulo Roger Casamajor Manolo Solo César Vea Iván Massagué Gonzalo Uriarte Eusebio Lázaro Francisco Vidal Juanjo Cucalón Lina Mira Mario Zorrilla Sebastián Haro Mila Espiga Pepa Pedroche Lalá Gatóo Ana Sáez Chani Martín Milo Taboada Fernando Albizu Pedro G. Marzo José Luis Torrijo Íñigo Garcés Fernando Tielve Federico Luppi Show All…
Jaromír Šedina David Lee Pavel Proisl David Domínguez Bruce Saintclaire Bruce St. Clair Ricardo Rodríguez
Le labyrinthe de Pan, Paani labürint, Ha'mavokh shel Pan, O Labirinto do Fauno
be honest. if this had been released in 2018, how many of you would've decided you wanted to fuck the faun
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Fantasy shaken by bullet fire and the agony of tired souls cut short, Pan's Labyrinth is a genuine marvel of storytelling, craftsmanship, design, and pure theatricality within cinematic boundaries. Skillfully told and heartrending in its mixture of warfare anxiety and childhood imagination, Guillermo Del Toro (master of understated drama and boisterous action) constructs a fluid vision that layers its "segments" with distinct separation. As each particular story (every subplot is important) eventually collides by the end of such a rich and engrossing tapestry, reality and illusion embrace in the most cathartic way.
It's a film that thrives because of its cumulative end, but Pan's Labyrinth succeeds so miraculously because each moment is plotted in line with Del Toro's storybook…
Guillermo Del Toro's obsession with the child's perspective is often the death blow of many films that have been produced with his name attached to it. He should stop producing them and he should start making them again because he has proven time and again that he is a fantastic storyteller and Pan's Labyrinth seems to be the film that blends together everything he values in film and stories.
This film is terrifying. Not so much because it is scary or filled with gore, no it is terrifying because we are scared for someone. Ofelia is a fantastic protagonist. She is a girl you automatically want to protect from the horrors around her and that investment is where this film…
unfollow me if you don’t think Mercedes is the greatest character of all time. this is a Mercedes fan page now.
apparently the faun guy in this film was inspired by a lucid dream Guillermo del Toro used to have where he would wake up and a faun would step out from behind a grandfather clock and walk towards him,, ugh his mind!!... literally
holy shit i had seen the pale man a million times but that motherfucker is TERRIFYING in motion. also– Vidal is one of the best villains I've ever seen and the ending is one of the most satisfying I've ever seen.
(i wonder if I would've liked the shape of water if i'd seen this movie, with a LOT of the same trademarks, first)
I’ve spent all these years thinking this would be a fun lil fantasy film.. I did not sign up for 118 minutes of emotional turmoil
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"You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her."
A detail noticed on re-watch: how its transitions usually take root in obstructed frames, switching from reality to fantasy through sudden environmental formations and shapes. Trees, emblematic of nature's stability and the security of make-believe (in stark contrast to the agony of the real world), provide an aesthetic gateway to lands of quests and temptations, areas of objectives and unreal - yet no less horrifying - consequences. There's magic bursting at the seams within this tapestry, but danger also abounds, and Del Toro builds a formal language to show how staying on either side of the spectrum can yield individual ramifications.
Gotta revisit. My sister is moving in to college tomorrow, I just uploaded a video, and I also am in the middle of editing another video so needless to say...I didn’t really give this my full attention. But with how little time I have to plow through the remaining 8 movies I’m gonna review it anyway.
Beautiful cinematography, loved the set design, and Guillermo del Toro just knows how to make you get emotional over shit you normally wouldn’t get emotional about. Again, deserves a rewatch.
