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Guillermo
del Toro has created
a dark, newly imagined
fairy tale and brought
it vividly to life
in Pan's Labyrinth,
a film scheduled
for release in the
U.S. on September
29, 2006.
The film expresses
the director's passion
for imagination
and creativity as
the antitheses of
fascistic repression
and censorship.
The story begins
in 1943 as a young
girl and her family
move to a decrepit
home in the North
of Spain following
the violent rise
of a Fascist government.
The girl, Ofelia,
discovers a portal
to another world
when she explores
her new surroundings.
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Doug Jones, del
Toro's friend and
acting collaborator
who played Abe Sapien
in Hellboy, appears
as two creatures:
the endearing faun
Pan and the bizarre,
horrific Pale Man.
Del Toro describes the
story as a scary
one, despite its
fairy tale trappings.
More in keeping
with his earlier
works The Devil's
Backbone and Chronos,
the director has
no grand commercial
aspirations for
the film, which
is a work of pure
creative expression
and idealism.
Del Toro's admirable
devotion to the
projects most dear
to him recently
precluded his participation
in the Masters of
Horror series as
well as Peter Jackson's
production of Halo.
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