NYFF: THE ORPHANAGE
Just caught the midnight screening of The Orphanage (El Orfanato) at the New York Film Festival. And all I have to say is it really creeped me out (in a good way). The film is directed by first-time Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro, director of last year's amazing Pan's Labrynth.
It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and has been generating a great deal of buzz with subsequent screenings at the Toronto Film Festival and last week's Fantastic Fest. In fact, it was just selected as Spain's submission for best foreign language picture for next year's Oscars.
Well, the hype is definitely justified. It's a smart, scary, and heartbreaking ghost story that takes place in an old orphanage in modern-day Spain. The film is filled with tense moments. There's one scene that caused the entire theatre to jump.
Yup, I'll be sleeping with the lights on tonight. The Orphanage comes out at the end of the year in the US. Check out the creepy trailer on the film's Spanish site.
DLM
It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and has been generating a great deal of buzz with subsequent screenings at the Toronto Film Festival and last week's Fantastic Fest. In fact, it was just selected as Spain's submission for best foreign language picture for next year's Oscars.
Well, the hype is definitely justified. It's a smart, scary, and heartbreaking ghost story that takes place in an old orphanage in modern-day Spain. The film is filled with tense moments. There's one scene that caused the entire theatre to jump.
Yup, I'll be sleeping with the lights on tonight. The Orphanage comes out at the end of the year in the US. Check out the creepy trailer on the film's Spanish site.
DLM
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