On Pan’s Labyrinth…
Thursday, January 4, 2007I’m still reeling from the involving and painful experience that was Pan’s Labyrinth - certificate 15, but given that I walked home with a quivering bottom lip I personally feel it should’ve been nearer a 36.
I guess innocent child-like fantasy escapism from grotesque and graphic horror isn’t exactly a new idea, but here it’s completely affecting. I strongly recommend it, but only in the same way that I’d recommend that other film that left recently left me a jibbering wreck, Requiem for a Dream: watch it and plan to do something wholly comforting immediately afterwards.
As Mark Kermode said it is the Citizen Kane of Fantasy Cinema. It was brilliant but it didn’t make me a happy young man.
MatthewJanuary 5th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
That’s a very accurate description, yes
SimonJanuary 5th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Saw it last night and thought it was brilliant. But as part of a double bill, I also saw The Devil’s Backbone and if anything I’d say this just has the edge, as I found it even more moving. Get down blockbuster and rent it now!
robinJanuary 13th, 2007 at 10:15 am