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SPAIN · 1973
El espiritu de la colmena
childhood innocence
post-civil war Spain
cinema and imagination
trauma and haunting
reality versus fantasy
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Synopsis
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
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I often told people that Pan’s Labyrinth has three main influences: The Spirit of the Beehive... because The Spirit of the Beehive is about the interior life of a little girl, framed by a very adult world in Spain, and that’s what I tried to do with Ofelia in Pan’s Labyrinth.
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childhood innocence · post-civil war Spain · cinema and imagination · trauma and haunting · reality versus fantasy
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