  January 10-16, 2007   'Pan's Labyrinth'  Photograph by Teresa
Isasi Magical Pan: Doug Jones' demigod puts young Ofelia (Ivana
Baquero) to work in 'Pan's Labyrinth.'  Pagan Triumph  In
Guillermo del Toro's fantasy allegory 'Pan's Labyrinth,' meat-
eating fairies meet clockwork fascists  By Richard von Busack
HELL SWITCHES places with Earth in the Pyrenees in 1944.
Franco's fascist army is clearing out a band of guerrillas, with
all of the usual brutality of an armed force fighting an
insurgency. That's the outer story. The inner story of Guillermo
del Toro's overwhelming Pan's Labyrinth inverts the myth of
Proserpine. A daydreaming 10-year-old, Ofelia (Ivana Baquero),
may be the reincarnation of the princess of the Underworld, but
she is currently helpless in the realm of her wicked stepfather.
The stepfather, the citified Capt. Vidal (Sergi López), arrives
to meet his troops deep in the forest with his ailing, pregnant
wife, Carmen (Ariadna Gil). Vidal is an emblem of the fascism
that an audience loves to h