the labyrinth

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2007)

Writer director Guillermo Del Toro is the most accomplished fantasist in contemporary cinema, a master creator of images, atmosphere and mood who uses his visionary's gifts to do what others can not: make imaginary worlds seem more real than reality itself. With this film, Del Toro has made his most accomplished film to date, a work set in the two parallel worlds, the cold , brutal one of Spain in 1944 and an equally disturbing alternative universe that a serious 10-year old girl named Ofelia stumbles upon behind an old mill. This dark and disturbing fairy tale for adults has been thought out to the ninth degree and resonates with the irresistible inevitability of a timeless myth. With Mirabel Verdu, Sergi Lopes, Ivana Baquiero and Doug Jones. In Spanish with Enlgish subtitles.