Screening of Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth at Vue Cinema Oxford.
Pan's Labyrinth is coming to Vue Cinema in Oxford for two screenings: Saturday 31 October at 6.00pm and Tuesday 3 November at 7.30pm. It's Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy, and if you've never seen it, it's a good place to start on a Halloween weekend.
The story follows Ofelia, a young Spanish girl who moves with her pregnant mother to stay with her stepfather, a captain of a Fascist outpost in Civil War Spain. Ofelia is haunted by fairytales, and she's drawn into the Labyrinth of Pan, where a faun tells her she's the long-lost princess of the underworld. He sets her three tests to regain her identity, while in the real world, guerrillas aided by a spy wage a losing war against the captain's forces. The two worlds run side by side, and the fairytale side is far from a children's story.
Del Toro describes it as a dark fantasy shot through with fear, cruelty and visceral violence, and it doesn't shy away from the grimness of the war it's set against. It's a film that upends the traditional happy-ever-after ethos of fairytales, so it's more of a heavy watch than a light one. It's rated 15, and the runtime is 119 minutes, just under two hours.
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With two dates to choose from, you can catch it on the Saturday evening or the following Tuesday. The first screening is at 6.00pm on 31 October, and the second is at 7.30pm on 3 November, both at Vue Cinema in Oxford.
