Pan’s Labyrinth
Craig Houghton January 20th, 2007
I’m recommending El Laberinto del Fauno or Pan’s Labyrinth. I think it’s a movie about turning inward to find something painfully beautiful. Here, that process itself is an act of defiance against an external world too horrible to accept — or, in better times, it’s a world too bland to embrace without meeting it halfway. For most of this movie, it’s the former. I left the theater fairly traumatized, but it’s a beautiful film worth watching.
