

Part childhood fable, part nightmare, Navarro steeps his images in deep blues and eerie yellows. Navarro is as integral to del Toro’s movies as any fairy tale monster, lensing six films with his countrymen: “ Cronos,” “ The Devil’s Backbone,” “ Hellboy,” “ Pan’s Labyrinth,” “ Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” and “ Pacific Rim.” Navarro has also worked with Robert Rodriguez on a few films, and shot Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown.” A film so dependent on visuals to weave its dark yarn, the genius of “ Pan’s Labyrinth” is in the delicate balance it strikes between lightness and darkness. Guillermo del Toro’s longtime cinematographer Guillermo Navarro won a much-deserved Oscar for his work on the director’s alluring dark fantasy film.
