Roger Casamajor

Romantically torn between her strict husband and his best friend, a young woman struggles to find freedom away from her condemnatory fishing village.

Guillermo del Toro reconfigures all manner of literary and cinematic fables—from Alice in Wonderland to The Spirit of the Beehive—for this exemplary gothic fantasy. An uncanny, oneiric vision of adolescence, Pan’s Labyrinth reaffirms the Grimm brothers’ notion that fairy tales aren’t just for kids.