Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico, Spain, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Spanish — subtitles on.
The story
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
- princess
- army
- fairy tale
- resistance
- servant
- anti hero
- franco regime (francoism)
- woods
- cruelty
- hiding
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ariadna Gil — Carmen
- Álex Angulo — Dr. Ferreiro
- Roger Casamajor — Pedro
- Manolo Solo — Garcés
- César Vea — Serrano
- Ivan Massagué — El Tarta
- Gonzalo Uriarte — Francés
- Eusebio Lázaro — Padre
- Francisco Vidal — Sacerdote
- Juanjo Cucalón — Alcalde
- Lina Mira — Esposa del alcalde
- Directed
- Guillermo del Toro
- Written
- Guillermo del Toro
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 11,706 ratings
- Studio
- Estudios Picasso, Esperanto Filmoj, Tequila Gang, Telecinco
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
