Are you looking for an amazing film that will depress you? Sure you are.
Recently featured as a “Great Movie” in Roger Ebert’s honors collection, “Pan’s Labyrinth” has been tagged as a fantasy film for adults, which is a reasonable description considering the realistic historical setting encompassing the fantasy elements.
Set in postwar Spain, Guillermo del Toro’s film follows Ofelia, an imaginative young girl who tries to reach her destiny as an outer-world princess.
Warning to young “Lord of the Rings” fans: this movie ain’t for kids. The violence is graphic, ranging from sudden death to gruesome extended torture. The all-too realistic sequences make the fawns and fairies a welcome entrance. However tragic the ending is, the bittersweet element makes the film worth watching.
