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LABYRINTH
In Franco's Spain, where Resistance fighters roam the woods, a sadistic
officer (Sergi Lopez) is determined to wipe them out. He has brought along his new family: his
pregnant wife (Ariadne Gil) and her 11-year-old daughter Ofelia (Ivana Baquero). The girl tries to
escape these harsh realities by fleeing to a sylvan labyrinth — a woodland wonderland —
where she is enthralled and tested by fauns, fairies, giant toads and a pale man with eyes in the
palms of his hands. But the real wonder is that director Guillermo del Toro has so artfully blended
these separate and conflicting milieus into a film that's both a nightmare of terror and a fairy
tale about the restoration of family unity. Lopez is a monster more instructively loathsome than
any old 7-ft. faun, and Maribel Verdu is steely and ferocious as the housekeeper with a key to all
the secrets.
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