Powerful taste of childhood

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2009)

Dark, sensitive and melancholic movie. About an age, a war and a country, about values and game, dreams and escapes. Lesson about the rules of existence, beyond the masks, words and lies.Travel in the heart of memory,on the carpet of the time of contemplation. It is not a fairy-tale but only the magic may create the limits of real discoveries. The powerful taste of childhood, with fantastic friends, the smell of Christmas Eve, the toys and the dialogs with theirs, all are parts of this film. The history and the myth. The fight as dream. The freedom as a chuck door, the death as sign of victory after a long combat. Same Manichean vision about Civil War, same recipes of good and bad. In fact, a world, old, ugly, boring. And the science of Ofelia to give a subtle sense to the ash of days.