Not as good as i thought it would be

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2007)

when you see the trailer and read about it you get the idea that it is much more fantasy and mystery than it really is.
It is much more a conventional thriller/drama about a poor girl and her mother, and how the girl uses her imagination to escape both her stepfather and the ongoing war around them.
The problem with this movie is that the story is too much about other people. It's more of a story about people in the Spanish civil war and it wanders of from the storyline several times.
This is clearly not a movie for children, or even teens, so i fail to see which group of people it aims for. It's much too bloody for young people, sometimes even for adults. The fantasy parts (the few of them) is kind of like The Brothers Grimm meets Big Fish.
And in the end you will be asked the obvious question...did some of the things really happened..or not.
Judge for yourself, but if you want to see a fantasy movie...this isn't it.