PAN'S LABYRINTH: The Frida Cinema

305 East 4th Street,Santa Ana CA 92701

08 October, 2022

Description

This October, The Frida Cinema is proud to present Beautiful Monsters: A Guillermo del Toro Film Retrospective and Tribute Art Show, featuring all eleven of the Academy Award-winning director’s feature films; three acclaimed films he produced; and seven films that served to inspire him. The series continues at The Frida Cinema with Pan's Labyrinth, del Toro's unforgettable dark fantasy for adults. The film finds a young girl named Ofelia traveling with her pregnant mother Carmen to the Spanish countryside after the Spanish Civil War has ended. Waiting for them there is Carmen’s new husband Vidal, a ruthless nationalist army captain. As Ofelia’s mother becomes more frail from the pregnancy and her new stepfather focuses on stopping a guerilla uprising, Ofelia is left to her imagination, which soon finds her wandering into a mysterious labyrinth inhabited by a faun known as Pan, who is immediately certain upon meeting her that Ofelia is a lost princess from the Underworld. Pan informs her that in order to return to her kingdom, she must complete three tasks to prove her royalty – but if she fails, she can never return back home to her true parents ever. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.