The story has two endings, two final images that linger in haunting, unresolved tension. Here is a princess, smilingly restored to her throne, bathed in golden subterranean light. And here is a grown woman weeping inconsolably in the hard blue twilight of a world beyond the reach of fantasy.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007 - Page 16 News List
Hell on earth, and a child's paradise below
‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ Guillermo del Toro’s visually inventive fantasy about fascist Spain, is a bold juxtaposition of political fable and a fairy tale
By A. O. Scott / NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK
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