Watch Pan’s Labyrinth
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Watch Pan’s Labyrinth - a dark fairytale
**** Four star
6 Academy Award nominations
best original screenplay
best cinematography
best original score
best foreign language film
best makeup
best art direction
Synopsis:
The return of the Princess of the underworld…
Spain, 1944. Officially, the Civil War has been over for five years,
but a small group of rebels fights on unbroken in the northern
mountains of Navarra. Dreamy 10-year-old Ofelia moves to Navarra with
her delicate, pregnant mother Carmen, to become acquainted with her new
stepfather, Captain Vidal, a Fascist officer under orders to rid the
territory of rebels. Ofelia, who is fascinated by fairy tales,
discovers an overgrown, tumbledown labyrinth behind the mill. In the
heart of the labyrinth she meets Pan, an ancient satyr who claims to
know her true identity and her secret destiny. But first, she must
complete three tasks before the moon grows full. And no one must know:
not her ailing mother, or her new friend, Mercedes. Time is running
out, for Ofelia and for the rebels. Both will have to battle hardship
and cruelty in order to gain their freedom.


