Pans Labyrinth, shot by Guillermo Navarro, ASC, marries the horrors of war-torn Spain with the surreal visions of an imaginative girl. by John Calhoun fairy tale, the story of a little girl who seeks refuge from the violence and misery of her life in a fantasy world that turns out to be just as menacing. Written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro, the film is not quite like anything you've seen before, except perhaps Pans Labyrinth is an R-rated Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone Unit photography by Teresa Isasi photos by David Lee Additional 34 January 2007 (2001), which also imposed superĀ¬ natural elements on a grim tale