It surprises me that this film hasn't got a topic yet. FOR SHAME!
I was lucky enough to go see it with Mrs. Johnson in a deserted cinema, and they only played it once at around midnight.
from imdb:
"Pan's Labyrinth" is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother's new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco's victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.
The special effects rocked my socks and this film finally convinced me (and i think some other people as well) of Guillermo del Toro's qualities as a director. Having said that, i highly reccomend watching this film, although i don't think many cinemas still play it in Britain. So rent it when it hits the stores, Mr. Johnson tells you to.
I saw a bit of this on Film 2006 around New Year. It does look really quite good, but because it doesn't have explosions and Jennifer Lopez in it it doesn't get any advertising. I might splash out when it comes out on DVD seeing as there's not a cinema within 40 miles of me - last time I invested in a foreign film that had piqued my interest I wasn't disappointed (No Man's Land if anyone's interested).
This film is really good, best of the few new films I saw last year.
A word of warning though; the trailer and other material shows a lot of fantasy type stuff but this aspect only takes up about 30-40% of the film. The non-fantasy stuff is extremely enjoyable and brutal in parts. I was expecting a semi-kid-friendly film but this is definitely not that.
spoodie wrote:This film is really good, best of the few new films I saw last year.
A word of warning though; the trailer and other material shows a lot of fantasy type stuff but this aspect only takes up about 30-40% of the film. The non-fantasy stuff is extremely enjoyable and brutal in parts. I was expecting a semi-kid-friendly film but this is definitely not that.
i was kind of expecting that too, but at least now i know a new use of bottles.
i only tend to remember what the title on the screen was. Also, it makes more sense as there isn't actually a "Pan" in the movie, as Pan is a specific mythological creature, and the "Fauno" in the film is as he says one of several.
plus it's one of the only times i can pronounce and remember the original title.
I wonder why it's called Pan's Labyrinth, it doesn't seem to be a translation of the Spanish title and like you say there's no "Pan" identified in the film, it's just assumed that that is the name of the faun.
Don't be put off by the fact that this is a Spanish language film, I'm not a great reader and I could easily keep up and forget that I was reading subtitles.
teh wikiwotsit wrote:In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people.
Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Pan- He loves goats, best of all the animals
Pfft!
I was gonna imply that that chap was clearly some kind of paedophile if he's slipping it into a kid, but on closer inspection the goat's got horns so it must be mature...
I was gonna imply that that chap was clearly some kind of paedophile if he's slipping it into a kid, but on closer inspection the goat's got the horn<s>s</s> so it must be okay <s>mature...</s>
then search for "Pan's Labyrinth"
