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    Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

    By Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    This enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heart

    You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it.

    In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests.

    Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the Capitán is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and gloves, smiling: a wolf.

    But nothing can prepare her for the fevered reality of the Capitán's eerie house, in the midst of a dense forest which conceals many things: half-remembered stories of lost babies; renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army; a labyrinth; beasts and fairies.

    There is no one to keep Ofelia safe as the labyrinth beckons her into her own story, where the monstrous and the human are inextricable, where myths pulse with living blood ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJul 2, 2019
    ISBN9781526609595
    Author

    Guillermo del Toro

    Guillermo del Toro is an Academy Award®–winning film director as well as a screenwriter, producer, and New York Times bestselling novelist. He is best known for his foreign fantasy films, especially Pan’s Labyrinth, and American mainstream movies like The Shape of Water. Del Toro has published multiple bestselling adult novels with HarperCollins, including The Strain, which was adapted into a TV series by FX, and he is the creator of Trollhunters, Netflix’s most-watched children’s series.

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    • 5/5
      This was the gift of a friend and truly a favorite. It's a Spanish language film and set during Spain's Civil War. I think that's part of what made it fresh--not the usual American or even British setting. It's hard for me to describe the quality of this film. It's fantastical and the central character is a little girl, but it's really far too dark to be seen as a children's film. When I saw dark, I mean in a Grimm's fairy tale way--it's never ick. Beautifully filmed and acted and simply unforgettable.
    • 5/5
      one of the most magical, beautiful, sad, strange, heartfelt stories I've stumbled upon.
    • 4/5
      Every bit as dark and magical as the movie.A few lines that stuck with me:"Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who were are even more than the people we love." (Vidal)"So many questions. Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers." (The Fairy)"That's what the books said, and didn't their tales feel so much truer than what adults pretended this world to be about? Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about--Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life." (Ofelia)"It is often easier to find something out than to face what you've found." (Ofelia)
    • 3/5
      A girl's step father fights the WWII Spanish resistance while she tries to escape into a fairytale world.There's the potential for a really great movie. The art direction is amazing (although poorly filmed - you just get a glimpse of it here and there). And I can imagine the story being extremely effective. But it's not. Del Toro has a fascinating imagination, but he's a bad director. I have to wonder if my wife and I wouldn't be the only people to realize that if this movie had been his follow-up to Hellboy 2 instead of Hellboy.Concept: BStory: BCharacters: BDialog: BPacing: BCinematography: DSpecial effects/design: DActing: BMusic: CEnjoyment: C plusGPA: 2.4/4