One of my favorites

Another fairy tale for grown-ups, Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece tells the story of ten-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), who is taken to live with her stepfather, an officer in Franco’s army, during the dying embers of the Spanish Civil War. Whilst said stepfather fights rebel militia in the forest, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and a faun, who tells her she is the reincarnation of a long-lost princess of an underworld kingdom. Del Toro’s genius is in depicting the “fantasy” world to be every bit as brutal as the wartime “reality”. With fine performances and one of fantasy cinema’s most monstrous villains (the brutal Captain Vidal…
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Author of Signs My Toddler Has a Drinking Problem (humor collection).Freelance writer of all things. Looper features writer. Believer. Adventurer. Semi- funny.
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