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War story: A girl's fantasies get her through turbulent times.
Byline: Jeff Simon
Jan. 19--Suddenly, it seems, the most interesting young directors in the world -- by far -- come from Mexico. Specifically, I'm talking about Alfonso Cuaron ("Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Children of Men"), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel," "Amores Perros," "21 Grams") and, now, Guillermo Del Toro, whose movie "Pan's Labyrinth" opens today. Here is a film that so desperately wants to be great that it almost succeeds. At the very least, it resembles no other World War II film that you will easily recall. (Certainly no other recent one.) It's about a forlorn little Spanish girl whose beloved pregnant mother has just married the fascist ...
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