A modern masterpiece made entirely on his own terms, with layers of imagery and storytelling folding back on themselves to create a completely formed world, this is remarkable, unique filmmaking. A richly moving story of the end of innocence. Pan's Labyrinth is at once baroque, eerie, smart, passionate, graceful and truly dazzling. Young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is forced to move into her stepfather's home, now that her mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil), is about to give birth. She hates her new life and her new father, the tyrannical Captain Vidal (an incredibly creepy performance by Sergi Lopez). He is intent on snuffing out the brave rebel forces who, despite all odds, refuse to allow their spirits to be crushed by the fascists. Ofelia, fiercely loyal to her mother and rightly suspicious of the Captain, feels the force of strange creatures from the moment she arrives. While the adults career toward confrontation and tragedy, Ofelia becomes immersed in the magical world in the surrounding forest. In an underground lair she encounters a strange faun - Pan - who tells her she is the long-lost princess they have been waiting for and sets her a series of tasks.