a sad context wrapped in an European magical environment

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2007)

I was first seduced by the ancient ruins surrounded by the forest of the first scenes. An odd stone that fits in a hole of an ancient statue...
A girl that evades from a cruel life with fairy tales is guided by a fantastic creature to something beyond the expected reality of a cruel grown up world.
In a style very similar to Carlos Saura's Spanish movies (see: http://imdb.com/name/nm0767022/bio ) the author tells us a story that does very little effort to avoid experiencing the historical context of Spain during the ending of their Civil War.
While the winners try to show everybody that their technical and only-one-point-of-view justified their cruel and reactionary war against the Spanish Republic, the loosers are left with nature and a rich human history on their side.
Nature for Europeans is filled with tradition, myths from before any contemporary religion and a profound knowledge of the human condition.
This film is showing all these, and is not trying to take the part of the girl that wants to forget the reality where she was forced to grow up. Is it possible?