Today I watched Pan’s Labyrinth.

Quite good.  Very beautiful fantasy.  I can see why so many people were raving about it.  I liked it’s use of conventional, fantasy story-telling elements but also how director Guillermo del Toro played with those ideas too.  I liked the color very much too.  Most of the movie is very dark, and dull, but some things, like blood for example, are very vivid.  Throughout the movie I wasn’t sure who I could trust, so I was surprised at the ending a bit.  Quite good, I would recommend it to you, my friends.

I think the actress who plays Ofelia in the movie, Ivana Baquero, would be the perfect choice for Alfonso Cuaron‘s adaptation of the Nicole Krauss novel, The History of Love.  A lot of people seem to think Emma Watson from the Harry Potter movies would be a good choice.  Maybe.  But I don’t think she’d be quite the same as Ivana.  Just a thought.

The girl from Y Tu Mama Tambien was in it too.