The English-language site for the Guillermo Del Toro-produced, hugely anticipated THE ORPHANAGE is up, sporting a teaser trailer.
This film, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, is getting praise dumped all over it. Here’s a somewhat lengthy plot description: Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon’s imagination, and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games… a troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child’s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood.
THE ORPHANAGE opens December 28, roughly the same release date on which last year’s PAN’S LABYRINTH came out. Coincidence? You f*ckin kiddin’ me?!
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