This three-time Oscar winner is Guillermo del Toro’s magnum opus: Alice in Wonderland crossed with Lovecraft and Buñuel, blending the horrors of both reality and fantasy into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable.
In 1944 Spain, young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) and her ailing mother (Ariadna Gil) arrive at the post of her mother’s new husband (Sergi López), a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. While exploring an ancient maze, Ofelia encounters the faun Pan, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess and must complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality. [118 min; fantasy, drama; Spanish with English subtitles]
This screening is supported by the Institute for European Studies, a Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence.
“With this film, del Toro seems to have created his manifesto, a tour de force of cautionary zeal, humanism and magic.” — Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
"This intense film, a mix of horror, fantasy, and history that convinces on all those levels and mixes them up with dizzying brio, is a searing cinematic experience, a beautiful, terrifying vision from writer-director Guillermo del Toro." — Glenn Kenny, Premiere
"Suspended between the brutally graphic and flights of lyrical fancy, Pan's Labyrinth unfolds with the confidence of a classical fable, one that paradoxically feels both timeless and startlingly new." — David Ansen, Newsweek
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