Recommended for AS/A2 and equivalent level Spanish.
Capacity: 158 places.
Carmen Herrero will introduce the historical background to Guillermo Del Toro’s dark cinematic fairytale and will focus on Francoist Spain, providing discussion topics and language exercises for AS and A2 students.
Led by Carmen Herrero, Head of Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University
Includes a screening of
PAN’S LABYRINTH (El Laberinto del Fauno) 15
Director: Guillermo Del Toro, Spain, 2006, 119mins
In Spanish with English Subtitles
PAN’S LABYRINTH is a fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain. The film centres on Ofelia, a lonely and dreamy child living with her mother and adoptive father, a military officer tasked with ridding the area of rebels. In her loneliness, Ofelia creates a world filled with fantastical creatures and secret destinies. With post-war repression at its height, Ofelia must come to terms with her world through a fable of her own creation.