Pan's Labyrinth a Timeless Fairy Tale for Adult Audiences

Mexican filmmaker and writer Guillermo del Toro's three times Academy award-winning blockbuster motion picture, Pan's Labyrinth, starring Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Alex Angulo, Doug Jones and Ivana Baquero, is sure to be remembered as one of the finest epic fairy tale films of the 21^st century.

Taking place during the post civil war reign of Spanish general and dictator, Francisco Franco, the movie unfolds through the eyes and imagination of Ofelia, an 11-year old girl, played by Ivana Baquero.

In the opening moments of the movie, a fairy tale, being read by Ofelia as she and her pregnant mother Carmen, played by Ariadna Gil, are traveling through the countryside to join Carmen's new husband, Captain Vidal, played by Sergi Lopez, is revealed.

"A long time ago, in the Underground Realm, where there are no lies or pain, there lived a princess who dreamt of the human world. She dreamt of blue skies, soft breezes and sunshine. One day, eluding her keepers, the princess escaped. Once outside, the bright sun blinded her and erased her memory. She forgot who she was and where she came from. Her body suffered cold, sickness and pain. Eventually she died. However, her father, the king, always knew she would return, perhaps in another body, in another place, at another time. He would wait for her, until he drew his last breath, until the world stopped turning."

Too young to understand and cope with the brutality of her new stepfather's cold and heartless ways, Ofelia's reality becomes blurred with her fairy tales soon after arriving at Captain Vidal's home, where anyone daring to disobey the psychopathic Captain routinely encounters a horrific execution.