The labyrinth of Fauno, Spanish Cinema Jewel
The labyrinth of the faun is one of the most applauded and best evaluated films of Spanish cinema in the last fifteen years, with a staging that leaves those who see it, directed by the great Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, who also stands out forBe a producer, screenwriter, makeup artist and photographer. He rolled his first terror shorts in the mid -80s, a genre that would later characterize him in his notable creations. He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico on October 9, 1964, and was released on October 11, 2006.
The film is developed in the middle of the Spanish postwar period or also called the Civil War during the year 1944, which was chaired by Francisco Franco, a unleashed and cruel dictator of the time that sought to end the revolutionary resistances of the Republicans.
The story takes between two parallel worlds, a real world, carried out in the aforementioned context and a fantasy world, composed of absolutely unreal and remote beings and places, full of magic and fantasy that make us travel to a fairly deep reflection. This tape corresponds to the fantastic genre, however it also incorporates elements of the dramatic genre.
It all starts when Ofelia, a 13 -year -old sweet and innocent girl, lover of fairy tales and fantasies, played by Ivana Baquero and her mother Carmen, starring Ariadna Gil, a young widowed woman at war, who was inA serious and advanced state of gestation of who would be her second husband, a violent and dark captain of the Spanish militia, Captain Vidal, by Sergi López, who lives in a section town, which they are sent to live Ofelia and her motherwith what would be your stepfather. The girl has not arrived shortly discovers that the honorable captain is an evil man who must fear.
It is in the first night Ofelia reaches ancient ruins that curiously accessed and discovers to what would later be his link with the unreal world, a great faun, perfectly built from the director’s imagination, who says that since childhood he was very curiousand imaginative. And that faun was one of his greatest inspirations, since as a child he saw a faun very similar to that of the tape in his grandmother’s closet. The role of this, is carried out by the American actor Doug Jones, who also interprets the role of the pale man. This would become your server and guide. That night the faun makes an incredible and shocking statement: in which she confesses that she is actually a princess, of a very distant place, where there is no pain and evil, Ofelia is the last of her lineage and her fatherNext to yours have been in their search for many years. He also tells him that the only way in which he can return is to overcome three tests, which can be given various interpretations, and in front of which three beautiful stories are counted within the story, evidence that it is necessary for anyone who wantsUnderstand them, see them and analyze them.
Throughout the film there is a constant coming and going between one reality and the other, a time course in which painful situations occur in the real world in which the little girl looks immersed. However, in spite of all the suffering that the girl is going through, life puts her near the maid of the captain, another young woman named Mercedes and starring Maribel Verdú, recognized and outstanding Spanish actress, winner of two Goya awards the one whoLater it would be the one who gives help and comfort for the homeless Ofelia.
This is how the labyrinth of the fauno enshrined Del Toro, to international success, being awarded in innumerable occasions in various categories. Being the 3 Oscars achieved in 2007 one of its greatest successes, it also received 8 nominations at the BAFTA Awards (British Film Academy) of which 4 awards were awarded, being one of the most rewarded films on that occasion on that occasion.
The famous director is characterized by carrying an aesthetic and setting of the most spectacular that I have seen in films, who also makes productions in the genre of terror and science fiction where he always uses gloomy and somewhat terrifying environments that give the feeling of overwhelmHowever, I intertwine them with magical and fantastic situations.
The interpretation and relationship between their argument and the characters give the feeling that it is part of the story, moving deeply from the emotional to the physical, due to the visual effects that the production uses that generate a strange sensation of attractiveness in the viewerstupor, that despite being so shocking and majestic terrifying characters, they invite you to continue looking at them, to which the soundtrack that accompanies the work incorporates what is necessary to make us feel that we are in a fairy tale but of the most terrifying thanI have seen, without abandoning emotionality and its wonderful aesthetics and working with its plot so real and at the same time unreal, which calls reflection and memory, as the director says during an interview:
"The labyrinth of the faun" is, therefore, a drama that has its roots in a context of war, with mythological and fairy tale elements inserted. Not even these creatures that I am especially fond of are the most important. Because, above all, this film is based on a deeply human and dramatic story. A story that raises universal issues that concern us all ”.
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