A modern fairy tale in the shadow of the space competition between US and Russia in 1960.

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2018)

This is poetry all the way, a beautiful love story of the kind that will endure forever, like similar love stories by Victor Hugo between monsters and virgins, the most impossible love stories triumphing in overdoming reality and surviving by its poetry. It's like a continuation from "Pan's Labyrinth", and it's actually the same actor playing the faun and the amphibian man, doing it quite convincingly in both cases. There is very little to add to the previous 756 reviews, it's just to join the chorus of supreme acclaim of this masterpiece of the cinematic art. The story is clearcut, the characters are well developed, realism is joined with fantasy in perfect convincing unity, and the drama is consummate. Nothing could be better.