El laberinto del fauno (2006) by Guillermo del Toro

AFG presents at the Club (AKUMB, 40 Tumanyan Str.)
February 6 - 27, 2018 Program
Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro + Bonus
Tuesday, February 20, 2017 at 20:00
El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
2006, Spain / Mexico / USA, R, 119 min, Drama / Fantasy / War, BR
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López
An Academy Award–winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro. Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) 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.
* Programs are free of charge, but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.
* Films are screened in original language with English subtitles.
* BR Box Set Donated to the program by Zareh Arevshatyan (USA)