Aug 26th
Pan's Labyrinth** (15) (El Laberinto del Fauno) Prince Charles Cinema

In Fascist Spain in 1944, a little girl retreats into a parallel fantasy underworld where she is a lost princess.
Dark variation on Alice in Wonderland, with an added historical element (used also in del Toro's previous film The Devil's Backbone), which is given just as much weight as the fantasy elements. Both worlds are in fact rather bleak, and the film lacks a certain "magic", although the designs are very imaginative, and not really for children but adults.

d: Guillermo del Toro
s: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdu, Alex Angulo, Doug Jones (as "Pan"), Roger Cassamajor, Federico Luppi