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medíocre um diretor q sustente um filme em cima de cenas de violência explicitas' date=' hitchcock deve se remexer no caixão a todo momento q lançam filmes dessa estirpe. [/quote']

Que isso osvald o filme nem tem tantas cenas violentas assim.

 

Na verdade tem. Mas Hitchcock descansa em paz, se o outro aí deixar...

 

 
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medíocre um diretor q sustente um filme em cima de cenas de violência explicitas' date=' hitchcock deve se remexer no caixão a todo momento q lançam filmes dessa estirpe. [/quote']

Que isso osvald o filme nem tem tantas cenas violentas assim.

 

Na verdade tem. Mas Hitchcock descansa em paz, se o outro aí deixar...

 

 

 

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O termo obra-prima se encaixa perfeitamente neste filme de Del Toro ...

 

O LABIRINTO DO FAUNO - 10/10

Del Toro realiza um belíssimo conto infantil assim como um intenso drama sobre a vida e a morte sob a ótica de uma criança. Perfeição é um conceito bastante relativo, mas tanto tecnica como artisticamente "O Labirinto do Fauno" é uma produção que se aproxima da excelência em todos os sentidos. O que mais me agradou ( é difícil citar algo que não tenha me agradado ) é a maneira como ele vai revelando a natureza de seus personagens, as particularidades do universo criado. A garotinha Ivana Baquero é graciosa e a sua participação é apaixonante e a presença do ator Sergí López é sufocante e aterrorizante de tão boa !!!! Um filme para a eternidade !!!!!!!!!

 
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Roger Ebert, crítico mais famoso dos EUA, já incluiu o filme em sua seleção quinzenal de grandes filmes da história - feito raríssimo, já que na maior parte das vezes ele seleciona clássicos americanos antigos ou gemas européias.

 

 

 

GREAT MOVIES

 

 

 

 

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

 

 

 

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By Roger Ebert

 

"Pan's

Labyrinth" is one of the greatest of all fantasy films, even though it

is anchored so firmly in the reality of war. On first viewing, it is

challenging to comprehend a movie that on the one hand provides fauns

and fairies, and on the other hand creates an inhuman sadist in the

uniform of Franco's fascists. The fauns and fantasies are seen only by

the 11-year-old heroine, but that does not mean she's "only

dreaming;" they are as real as the fascist captain who murders on the

flimsiest excuse. The coexistence of these two worlds is one of the

scariest elements of the film; they both impose sets of rules that can

get an 11-year-old killed.

 

 

 

 

"Pan's Labyrinth" (2006) took shape in the imagination of Guillermo del Toro

as long ago as 1993, when he began to sketch ideas and images in the

notebooks he always carries. The Mexican director responded strongly to

the horror lurking under the surface of classic fairy tales and had no

interest in making a children's film, but instead a film that looked

horror straight in the eye. He also rejected all the hackneyed ideas

for the creatures of movie fantasy and created (with his Oscar-winning

cinematographer, art director and makeup people) a faun, a frog and a

horrible Pale Man whose skin hangs in folds from his unwholesome body.

 

The time is 1944 in Spain. Bands of anti-Franco fighters hide in the

forest, encouraged by news of the Normandy landings and other setbacks

for Franco's friends Hitler and Mussolini. A troop of Franco's soldiers

is sent to the remote district to hunt down the rebels, and is led by

Capitan Vidal (Sergei Lopez), a sadist under cover as a rigid military

man.

 

 

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Maribel Verdu (left) and Ivana Baquero in "Pan's Labyrinth."

 

 

 

 

Commandeering a gloomy old mill as his headquarters, he moves in his new wife, Carmen (Ariadna Gil),

who is very pregnant, and her daughter from her first marriage, Ofelia

(Ivana Baquero). The girl hates her stepfather, who indeed values

Carmen only for breeding purposes. Soon after arriving, Vidal shoots

dead two farmers whose rifles, they claim, are only for hunting

rabbits. After they die, Vidal finds rabbits in their pouches. "Next

time, search these assholes before wasting my time with them," he tells

an underling. He orders Mercedes (Maribel Verdu), his chief servant, to cook the rabbits for dinner: "Maybe a stew." What a vile man.

 

Ofelia encounters a strange insect looking like a praying mantis. It

shudders in and out of frame, and we're reminded of Del Toro's

affection for odd little creatures (as in "Cronos,"

with its deep-biting immortality bug). The insect, friendly and

insistent, seems to her like a fairy, and when she says so, the bug

becomes a vibrating little man who leads her into a labyrinth and thus

to her first fearsome meeting with the faun (Doug Jones, who

specializes in acting inside bizarre costumes). Some viewers have

confused the faun with Pan, but there is no Pan in the picture and the

international title translates as "Labyrinth of the Faun."

The

faun seems to be both good and evil; what are we to make of a huge pile

of used shoes, especially worrisome in the time of the Holocaust? But

what he actually offers is not good or evil, but the choice between

them, and Del Toro says in a commentary that Ofelia is "a girl who

needs to disobey anything except her own soul." The whole movie, he

says, is about choices.

 

 

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The faun fits neatly into Ofelia's worries about her pregnant mother;

he gives her a mandrake root to hide under the mother's bed and feed

with two drops of blood daily. The mandrake root is said to resemble a

penis, but this one, in special effects that are beyond creepy, looks

like a half-baby made from wood, leaves and earth. Ofelia discovers

that Carmen is aiding the rebels, but keeps her secret because she

doesn't want to be responsible for hurting anyone, a trait that will

benefit her.

 

The film is visually stunning. The creatures do not look like movie

creations but like nightmares (especially the Pale Man, with eyes in

the palms of his hands). The baroque organic look of the faun's lair is

unlike any place I have seen in the movies. When the giant frog

delivers up a crucial key in its stomach, it does so by regurgitating

its entire body, leaving an empty frog skin behind. Meanwhile, Vidal

plays records on his phonograph, smokes, drinks, shaves as if tempting

himself to slash his throat, speaks harshly to his wife, threatens the

doctor and shoots people.

 

Del Toro moves between many of these scenes with a moving foreground

wipe -- an area of darkness, or a wall or a tree that wipes out the

military and wipes in the labyrinth, or vice versa. This technique

insists that his two worlds are not intercut, but live in edges of the

same frame. He portrays most of the mill interiors in a cold blue-grey

slate, but introduces life tones into the faces of characters we favor,

and into the fantasy world. It is no coincidence that the bombs of the

rebels introduce red and yellow explosions into the monotone world they

attack.

 

 

 

 

Guillermo del Toro

(born 1964) is the most challenging of directors in the fantasy field

because he invents from scratch, or adapts into his own vision. He has

made six features since his debut at 29 with "Cronos" (1993), and I have admired, even loved, all of them, even those like "Hellboy," "Mimic" and "Blade II" that did not receive the universal acclaim of "Cronos" and "The Devil's Backbone"

(a ghost story also set in Franco's Spain). He is above all a

visually-oriented director, and when he says "films are made of looks,"

I think he is referring not only to the gazes of his actors but to his

own.

 

 

 

 

Born in Mexico, he has worked there and overseas, like his gifted friends and contemporaries Alfonso Cuaron (born 1961) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

(born 1963). Isn't it time to start talking about a New Mexican Cinema,

not always filmed in Mexico but always informed by the imagination and

spirit of the nation? Think of Del Toro's remarkable films, and then

consider too Cuaron's "Children of Men," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner

Of Azkaban" (the best-looking Potter film), "Great Expectations" (an overlooked masterpiece) and "Y Tu Mama Tambien." Or Inarritu's "Amores Perros," "21 Grams" and "Babel."

 

Some of these are in one way or another genre films, but there is so

much impact and intensity, and such a richness of visual imagination,

that they flatter their genres instead of depending on them. The three

directors trade actors and technicians, support each other, make new

rules, are successful without compromise. Cauron's 1998 "Great Expectations," set in a Spanish-moss-dripping modern Florida and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Bancroft

(in guess which roles), is a stunning reworking of Dickens and

illustrates how all three of these directors can put hands on a project

and make it their own.

What makes Del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth"

so powerful, I think, is that it brings together two kinds of material,

obviously not compatible, and insists on playing true to both, right to

the end. Because there is no compromise there is no escape route, and

the dangers in each world are always present in the other. Del Toro

talks of the "rule of three" in fables (three doors, three rules, three

fairies, three thrones). I am not sure three viewings of this film

would be enough, however.

 

 

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Não tenho certeza se devo considerá-lo OP, ainda. Tem tantos elementos sutis para captar, engenhosamente entranhados ao enredo, sejam eles narrativos ou simbólicos.

É originalíssimo em sua concepção, e ao concretizá-lo, a direção concilia todas as nuances temáticas com sucesso. Acho que necessito uma revisão - não nesse DVD pobre que lançaram aqui, mas numa futura edição de colecionador (que aliás já tem na região 1).

No mínimo, posso dizer que fiquei desconcertado, atordoado ao final da sessão. Uma experiência poderosa, bem forte mesmo.

 

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Uma obra-prima que mistura perfeitamente fantasia e realismo.

 

Mas em compensação tem um ritmo horrível IMO.

Ritmo? Confesso que nem percebi nisso pois estava notando todas as sutilezas e analogias criadas pelo Del Toro.

 

E francamente, não creio que tenha um ritmo horrível, caso houvesse ficaria entediado na sexta vez que vi.
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Uma obra-prima que mistura perfeitamente fantasia e realismo.

 

Mas em compensação tem um ritmo horrível IMO.

Ritmo? Confesso que nem percebi nisso pois estava notando todas as sutilezas e analogias criadas pelo Del Toro.

 

E francamente' date=' não creio que tenha um ritmo horrível, caso houvesse ficaria entediado na sexta vez que vi.
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sexta??? você precisa sair de casa 06.
Tenho que rever, só vi uma vez e na época não dei muita bola, mas lembro que o filme me emocionou.
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