Runtime : 112 Min.
Genre : Fantasy
Director : Guillermo del Toro
Movie Stars : Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo
Production : Warner Bros.
Country: Spain
Language : Spanish
Freaking awesome film! It's not your everyday run of the mill type film, but a fairy tale for children with a twist for adults. It has blood, violence, war, tradgeis, and a soft warm fantasy for a girl wanting to leave her world for a better one. The characters were not as developed as I would have liked, as in the emotions and history were not there.
Warning, contains spoilers.
This is just a random little point but somewhere in the movie the faun says 'what reason would you have to not trust a little ole faun like me?' and then points to himself. No one innocent would say something like that and then precede to point to themselves with a look of shock on their faces. From then on, I was thinking that the tasks were tricks and the faun was evil . Imagine my surprise when the faun turns out to be a good guy.
Plot
The story takes place in post-Civil War Spain in 1944. Ofelia, our main character, is forced to move to the country-side with her pregnant mother Carmen to be with her tyrant step-father Captain Vidal. Ofelia is the reincarnated princess Moanna of the Underground Realm who curiously escaped to Earth and died. Ofelia is told by the Faun that she must complete three task before the full moon in order to return to her world. Meanwhile, Carmen is having extreme pregnancy complications and is bedridden. Mercedes, the kind housekeeper, is secretly helping the Maquis guerrillas against Captain Vidal and the Franco regime. Ofelia becomes trapped between her hope of a new world and the world she lives in.
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