Cult 101: The Orphanage (2007) 4K Restoration
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Director: J. A. Bayona Run Time: 105 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2007
Starring: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Roger Príncep
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Language: Spanish
About the film:
Nominated for the Golden Camera at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Winner of seven Goya awards.
Laura has happy memories of her childhood in an orphanage. She convinces her husband to buy the place and help her convert it into a home for sick children. One day, her own adopted son, Simón, disappears. Simón is critically ill, and when he is still missing several months later, he is presumed dead. Grief-stricken Laura believes she hears spirits, who may or may not be trying to help her find the boy.
“a beautifully told, terrifying ghost story that lingers with you long after the shivers have stopped.”
—Ollie Richards, Empire Magazine
About the filmmaker:
Juan Antonio Bayona is a Spanish film director. His made his feature debut with the gothic horror The Orphanage (2007), which opened the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won seven Goya awards, including Original Screenplay and New Director. He set a new record for opening weekend at the Spanish box office with his second feature The Impossible (2012), and followed up with A Monster Calls (2016) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), the fifth entry in the Jurassic Park film franchise. His latest feature film Society of the Snow (2023) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. Among other projects, Bayona has also directed television commercials, music videos, two episodes of the series Penny Dreadful in 2004, and the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in 2022.
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