Pan's Labyrinth

  • April 21, 2018 / 16:00
  • April 24, 2018 / 19:00

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Spain, Mexico, USA, 2006, 118',color, Spanish with Turkish subtitles
 

Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi López), a sadistic captain in General Francisco Franco’s army, hunts down Republican guerrillas refusing to give up the fight. The violent reality in which Ofelia lives merges seamlessly with her fantastical interior world when she meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child’s imagination and threatening the innocence of youth.

Free admissions. Drop in, no reservations.

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Pan's Labyrinth

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Trailer

Pan's Labyrinth

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