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“One of the greatest of all fantasy films…there is so much impact and intensity, and such a richness of visual imagination.” – Roger EbertAn 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.
Plus, come out early for a sampling of mystical terror with a Fantasy Horror pre-show starting at 4:30 pm!
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5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
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