n Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning fairytale for adults, fascism struggles to trample an innocent's imagination
Pan's Labyrinth is a sister film to The Devil's Backbone, and similarly blends historical realism with more genre-bound fantasy elements to create an expansive, visionary and moving examination of Spain's darkest chapter of the last century.
Pan's Labyrinth is a sister film to The Devil's Backbone, and similarly blends historical realism with more genre-bound fantasy elements to create an expansive, visionary and moving examination of Spain's darkest chapter of the last century.
South London Solidarity Federation Presents:
CLASS ACTS! Pan's Labyrinth
In Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning fairytale for adults, fascism struggles to trample an innocent's imagination
Pan's Labyrinth is a sister film to The Devil's Backbone, and similarly blends historical realism with more genre-bound fantasy elements to create an expansive, visionary and moving examination of Spain's darkest chapter of the last century.
It is 1944, at the end of the Civil War, a time when idealism and innocence are taking their final, doomed stand. With her father dead, Ofélia (Baquero) goes to live with her pregnant mother's new man, the fascist Captain Vidal (López), who is ruthlessly engaged in destroying the last remnants of a guerrilla group hidden in nearby woods.
Vidal’s housekeeper (Verdú) and doctor (Angulo) are both secretly helping the resistance as best they can, and Ofélia too defies Vidal's monolithic worldview by retreating into her own fairytale imagination.
In Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofélia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain run in curious parallel as two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil, as fairytale fantasy and fascist reality vie for the soul of a girl and a nation, in an unmissable celebration of cinema's capacity to enthrall.
Wednesday 19th December 2007 at 7.30 for food, 8.00pm for film.
£4 including veggie food at The Café Crema 306 New Cross Rd SE14
Bus: 53, 453, 177, 225,171, 172,136, 321,
Train and Tube: New Cross or New Cross Gate, DLR Deptford Bridge
CLASS ACTS! Pan's Labyrinth
In Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning fairytale for adults, fascism struggles to trample an innocent's imagination
Pan's Labyrinth is a sister film to The Devil's Backbone, and similarly blends historical realism with more genre-bound fantasy elements to create an expansive, visionary and moving examination of Spain's darkest chapter of the last century.
It is 1944, at the end of the Civil War, a time when idealism and innocence are taking their final, doomed stand. With her father dead, Ofélia (Baquero) goes to live with her pregnant mother's new man, the fascist Captain Vidal (López), who is ruthlessly engaged in destroying the last remnants of a guerrilla group hidden in nearby woods.
Vidal’s housekeeper (Verdú) and doctor (Angulo) are both secretly helping the resistance as best they can, and Ofélia too defies Vidal's monolithic worldview by retreating into her own fairytale imagination.
In Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofélia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain run in curious parallel as two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil, as fairytale fantasy and fascist reality vie for the soul of a girl and a nation, in an unmissable celebration of cinema's capacity to enthrall.
Wednesday 19th December 2007 at 7.30 for food, 8.00pm for film.
£4 including veggie food at The Café Crema 306 New Cross Rd SE14
Bus: 53, 453, 177, 225,171, 172,136, 321,
Train and Tube: New Cross or New Cross Gate, DLR Deptford Bridge
