Research Guides: ENG 250: Film as Literature: Pan's Labyrinth

The Film

Pan's Labyrinth
In this fairy tale, a small family in Spain moves into an old house in 1943 after the rise of Fascism. Their eldest daughter, at age 12, falls in love with a fawn that lives in the old ruined labyrinth behind their decrepit home.

Release Date: 2006

Run time: 119 minuites

Rating: R (Graphic violence and some language)

Studio: Warner Bros.

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Screenwriter(s): Guillermo del Toro

Main Cast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Doug Jones

Additional Information: El Laberinto del Fauno is the original Spanish title.

The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema by Alejandro Yarza
ISBN: 9780748699247

Publication Date: 2017-12-15
The Three Amigos by Deborah Shaw Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth
ISBN: 9780719082702

Publication Date: 2013-06-30

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made.