by Guillermo del Toro, with Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdù, Ariadna Gil, Mexico/ Spain/USA 2006, 119'. The Labyrinth of the Faun (International: English title), El laberinto del fauno (Spanish), Il labirinto del fauno (Italian). --Ofelia is a little girl who lives two parallel lives. A real one, in the young and cruel Spanish dictatorship (but could be any other similar place), where the challenge is defending her mother and herself from her primitive and machist stepfather (an unrecognizable Sergi Lopez). And a fantastic one, in her imagined fairy tales, where once she was a princess then become a human to experience the World, and now she has to succeed in different challenges to get back to her kingdom. The two parallel words overlap continuously in Ofelia’s existence, and will end up to become as one. Will Ofelia turn into a princess again? Yes, she will, but in the real Wold, reaffirming life over everything else. --
Poche altre parole, per un bel film molto centrato (forse anche troppo perfetto), pieno di vita vera, in cui la fantasia è una riuscita estensione della realtà. Riferimenti mitologici (il labirinto di Creta) a parte.
