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The Orphanage

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The Orphanage

Spanish Promotional Poster
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
Produced by Mar Targarona
Joaquín Padro
Álvaro Agustín
Guillermo del Toro
Written by Sergio G. Sánchez
Starring Geraldine Chaplin
Belén Rueda
Fernando Cayo
Roger Príncep
Mabel Rivera
Music by Fernando Velázquez
Cinematography Óscar Faura
Editing by Elena Ruiz
Distributed by Spain:
Warner Bros. Pictures
United States:
Picturehouse
Release date(s) Cannes Film Festival:
20 May, 2007
Spain:
4 October, 2007
United States:
28 December, 2007
Mexico:
26 January 2008
United Kingdom:
21 March, 2008
Running time 105 min.
Country Spain
Mexico
Language Spanish

The Orphanage (Spanish: El Orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish-language horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona. The film stars Belén Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Príncep as their adopted son Simón. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an orphanage. Laura plans to turn the house into a home for disabled children, but a problem arises when she and Carloes realize that Simón believes he has a masked friend named Tomás with whom he will run away. After an argument with Laura, Simón is found to be missing.

The film's script was written by Sergio G. Sánchez in 1996 and brought to the attention of Bayona in 2004. Bayona asked his long-time friend, director Guillermo del Toro, to help produce the film and to double its budget and filming time. Bayona wanted the film to capture the feel of 1970s Spanish cinema; he cast Geraldine Chaplin and Belén Rueda, who were later praised for their roles in the film.

The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2007. It received critical acclaim from audiences in its native Spain, winning seven Goya awards. On its North American release, The Orphanage was praised by English speaking critics, who described the film as well directed and acted, and noted the film's lack of "cheap scares". New Line Cinema bought the rights to the film for an American remake.

Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production
2.1 Development
2.2 Casting
2.3 Filming
3 Cast
4 Release
4.1 Home media
4.2 Remake
5 Reception
6 Soundtrack
6.1 Tracklisting
7 References
8 External links

Attention: for all, who wants to know what is the film about!

Plot:
The film is set in Spain, where Laura (Belén Rueda) returns to the dilapidated orphanage where she grew up, accompanied by her husband, Carlos (Fernando Cayo), and their seven-year-old adopted son, Simón (Roger Princep). Her plan is to reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. Once there, Simón claims to see a boy named Tomás, whom he befriends and draws as a child wearing a sack mask. A social worker named Benigna (Montserrat Carulla) visits the orphanage, telling Laura that she has Simón's adoption file, which includes the fact that Simón is HIV-positive. Incensed at Benigna's intrusion, Laura sends her away. That night, Laura finds Benigna snooping around her garden shed, but Benigna escapes before Laura can confront her. Later, Simon teaches Laura a type of scavenger hunt game that Tomás taught him. The game involves hiding a person's possessions, with the player who recovers his final possession winning a wish. While playing the game, Laura discovers Simón's adoption file is missing and angrily accuses Simón of hiding it. An angry Simón denies this and says that Tomás told him that Laura is not his real mother and that he knows he is going to die.

During a children's party at the orphanage, Laura and Simón argue, and Simón hides from her. While searching for him, Laura is confronted by a boy in a sack mask with the name "Tomás" embroidered onto his shirt. The boy traps her in a bathroom, and when she escapes she frantically searches for Simón throughout the house and then outside. She sees a vague figure of a boy standing in a cave in the distance, but in her haste to reach it, Laura trips and injures herself. At a medical center, the police psychologist, Pilar (Mabel Rivera), suggests to Laura and Carlos that Benigna may have abducted Simón. That night at home, a bedridden Laura hears unexplained banging in the walls.

Months later, Laura and Carlos spot Benigna pushing a baby carriage downtown. As Laura calls out to her, Benigna is suddenly hit and killed by a speeding van. Laura rushes to Benigna's carriage, but finds only a doll wearing Tomás' sack mask. With this clue, Police search Benigna's home and find evidence revealing that Benigna worked at the orphanage long ago. Pilar shows Laura an old photo of a young Benigna (Carol Suárez) and her deformed son named Tomás. Laura learns that the children of the orphanage played a trick on Tomás, which led to his accidental death.

In desperation, Laura goes to a medium named Aurora (Geraldine Chaplin), seeking clues to her son's disappearance. The medium tells Laura that she is close to death, and so has the ability to see the dead. It is discovered that Benigna murdered the children responsible for her son's death.

Unable to cope with the situation, Carlos leaves the orphanage, and Laura takes sedatives to get into a state near death. She begins to see ghost children around her who show her to hidden door leading to a basement room. Here, she discovers Simón alive and hugs him in a blanket. As the ghost children vanish, Laura finds that the blanket is empty and the body of the deceased Simón lies behind her. Realizing that Simón had been trapped in the basement all along, Laura carries Simón's body upstairs and swallows all her medication, begging to be with Simón again. Laura's wish is granted as the ghosts of the dead children appear and Simón comes to life in Laura's arms.

Some time later, Carlos walks alone over to the gravestones for Laura and Simón, which stand outside the orphanage. Carlos returns to their old bedroom and finds a medallion that he gave to Laura on the floor. He hears the sound of the bedroom door opening; as he turns to it he slowly smiles.

Production (it isn`t so interesting):

Development
The first draft of the script of The Orphanage was written by Sergio G. Sánchez in 1996 (!!!).[1] Sánchez was not sure why he chose to write a genre film for the screenplay, as he explains, "I ended up writing a film in the style of those I liked as a kid, movies like Poltergeist, The Omen, and Rosemary's Baby which I ruined on the first VCR we owned at home."[2] Sánchez revealed the literary influences underlying his writing of the script, such as The Turn of the Screw and Peter Pan.[3] Sánchez originally wanted to direct the script but he was repeatedly turned down by various Spanish production companies.[4] While Sánchez was working on the short film 7337 in 2004, he met with director Juan Antonio Bayona and offered him the script to direct.[5][4][2] Bayona accepted the opportunity because he felt that a fantasy themed script like that of The Orphanage would allow him freedom as a director, saying the fantasy genre was a great tool for learning as it "allows manipulation of space and time as we wish or the use of certain camera moves with an immediate efficiency".[6]

Bayona cut parts of the script, including the outcome of the other orphanage children, because he wanted to focus on the character of Laura and what happens to her.[6] To create the film as he wanted, Bayona had to double both the film's budget and the amount of filming time.[7] To accomplish this, Bayona received help from fellow film director Guillermo del Toro, whom he had met at Festival de Cine de Sitges when del Toro was presenting his film Cronos (1993).[7] Del Toro offered to co-produce the film as soon as he learned about it.[7]

[edit] Casting
On discussions with casting between del Toro and Bayona, Bayona wanted to have Belén Rueda in the lead.[7] Del Toro admired this choice as he appreciated her as an actress and that Bayona was casting her against the genre.[7] Bayona admired her after seeing her performance as Julia in Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside.[8] Bayona had Rueda watch The Innocents and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to prepare for the role.[9] Another role Bayona desired for the film was to have Geraldine Chaplin as the role of the Aurora the medium.[7] Bayona stated that he wanted the film to have "the mood of 70s Spanish cinema and Geraldine starred in one of the best movies of that decade, Carlos Saura's The Secret of Anna, as the ghost of the mother. It made sense to have her play the medium."[8] Bayona was nervous about filming with Chaplin. To break the ice, on the first day of shooting with her Bayona hid under a bed and grabbed her leg when she knelt down in the dark.[8] Chaplin's scream in the film is her genuine surprise of her being grabbed.[8] The role of Simón by Roger Príncep was one of the first test-screenings for the role.[5] Bayona went through over four-hundred children over two months before making his choice.[5]

[edit] Filming
Production on The Orphanage began on May 15, 2006 in Llanes in the Asturias.[7] This location was chosen due to the diversity of the area's natural settings, namely, beaches, caves, cliffs, forests, a small village and the Partarríu Manor where the Orphanage scenes take place.[7] The orphanage was an old colonial house from the end of the 19th century.[7] Bayona wanted to execute certain camera motives that were impossible in the house, so several parts of the house were required to be remade in a studio on a sound set.[7] After four weeks in Llanes, the team moved to Barcelona to finish up the last ten weeks of filming on sound sets, making over 80% of the film there.[7]

[edit] Cast
Belén Rueda as Laura: The wife of Carlos and mother of the adopted Simón. Laura returns to the Orphanage that she spent some of her youth at to turn it into a home for disabled children.
Fernando Cayo as Carlos: Carlos is the husband of Laura and father of adopted Simón.
Roger Príncep as Simón: Simón is the young adoptive son of Laura and Carlos. Simón meets new imaginary friends in the orphanage and eventually threatens to run away with them.
Geraldine Chaplin as Aurora: Aurora is the medium brought in to help find Simón when the police can't find him.
Mabel Rivera as Pilar: Pilar is the head of the police psychologist who eventually leads out the truth of who Benigna really is.
Montserrat Carulla as Benigna: Bengina appears first in the film as a social worker who sneaks around the orphanage at night. When she is seen young in the film, she is portrayed by Carol Suárez.[10] Production companies working with Bayona tried to urge him to keep this character alive until the end of the film.[11]

[edit] Release

Juan Antonio Bayona, Belén Rueda and Guillermo del Toro at a French premiere of The Orphanage in Paris on 28 January 2008.The Orphanage premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2007. The film was positively received with a ten minute ovation from the audience.[12] The film's Spanish debut took place at the Sitges Film Festival on October 4, 2007 where it opened the festival.[13] The Orphanage had a wide release in Spain on October 11, 2007 and was immensely successful in Spain after an $8.3 million four-day launch from 350 screens. The film was the second highest-grossing debut ever for a Spanish film and was the biggest opening of the year, making it even larger than the worldwide success of the Spanish film Pan's Labyrinth.[14][12]

In Spain, the film was nominated for 14 Goya Awards, including Best Picture and ended up winning awards for Best Art Direction, Best Director of Production, Best Makeup and Hair, Best New Director, Best Screenplay - Original, Best Sound Mixing and Best Special Effects.[15] The Orphanage was chosen by the Spanish Academy of Films as Spain's nominee for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, but ultimately did not end up as one of the five final nominees in that category.[12] The Orphanage was picked up by Picturehouse at the Berlin Film Festival for American distribution.[16] It opened in limited release in the United States on December 28, 2007 and had a wide release on January 11, 2008.[17]

Home media
The Orphanage was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 22, 2008 for a Region 1 release by New Line Cinema.[18] Both discs featured the same bonus features.[19][18] A Region 2 version was released on DVD by Optimum Releasing on July 21, 2008.[20]

[edit] Remake
In 2007, New Line Cinema bought the rights to produce an English-language remake with Guillermo del Toro as producer.[16][21] On remakes, director Bayona noted that "The Americans have all the money in the world but can't do anything, while we can do whatever we want but don't have the money" and "The American industry doesn't take chances, that's why they make remakes of movies that were already big hits".[22]

[edit] Reception
The Orphanage was received very well by American critics on its original release. The film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 86% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 146.[23] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 74, based on 33 reviews.[24] Critics praised the film for its lack of cheap scares. Film critic for the Chicago Sun Times Roger Ebert praised the film claiming it to be "deliberately aimed at viewers with developed attention spans. It lingers to create atmosphere, a sense of place, a sympathy with the characters, instead of rushing into cheap thrills".[25] Bill Goodykoontz of the Arizona Republic echoed this statement noting, "Bayona never lets The Orphanage descend into cheap horror. The scares here are expertly done and, placed in the context of Laura's state of mind, well-earned, perhaps even explainable (or not)."[26] Peter Howell of the Toronto Star wrote, "The year's best horror picture is also one of the simplest. The Orphanage makes little if any use of digital tricks to present its numerous terrors."[27] The casting of Chaplin and Rueda was praised while the role of Carlos was called dull. Goodykoontz noted the role of Carlos, saying "Cayo is rather pedestrian as Carlos, but he isn't given that much to do".[26] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune shared this opinion saying, "Rueda has a great pair of peepers for this assignment. When she looks one way and then the other, while skulking through the hallways of her childhood home, every nerve-wracking whatwasthat? registers, and how. Cayo is pretty dull by comparison, but Chaplin certainly is not."[28] Liam Lacey of The Globe & Mail praised Rueda stating, "The strongest appeal of the film is the brooding, intense performance by Spanish actress, Belen Rueda."[29] The Orphanage listed as one of the top 10 best films of 2007 by several critics, including Lawrence Toppman of the Charlotte Observer, Marc Doyle of Metacritic and Tasha Robinson of The Onion.[30] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker included the film on his top ten list of 2008.[31]

There were few negative reviews, and those that were negative were not in agreement. A negative review came from Lacey of The Globe & Mail, who felt that at "[the film's] core, it seems intended as a sympathetic drama of a bereaved mother, who may have slipped into madness. What's even more disquieting is the persistent undercurrent of exploitation - the mixture of grief and jarring shock effects and the pitiless use of a disfigured child as a source of horror." A.O. Scott of The New York Times claimed to the film to be a "diverting, overwrought ghost story" and that it "relies on basic and durable horror movie techniques". Jack Matthews of The New York Daily News founding the ending of the film to be one of the worst of the season, but praised the acting of Belén Rueda.

Soundtrack
El Orfanato

Film score by Fernando Velázquez
Released 2007
Genre Film music
Length 71:11
Label Rhino
In 2007, the film score for The Orphanage was composed by Fernando Velázquez and released on compact disc Rhino Records in Spain. The score for the film was nominated for film awards including the Goya Award for Best Score. The soundtrack has not been released locally in North America or the United Kingdom and is only available by import.

What do you think abot the best (for me, of course!) film NOW?

Меня порадовало (если кто что-то не понял, сейчас буду частями переводить) меня порадовало:

"...Bayona was nervous about filming with Chaplin. To break the ice, on the first day of shooting with her Bayona hid under a bed and grabbed her leg when she knelt down in the dark.Chaplin's scream in the film is her genuine surprise of her being grabbed..."

Ничего себе, да?
"Байона очень нервничал по поводу сьемки с Чаплин (та, которая играла женщину, котоорая была раком кожи больна, или что у нее там было). Чтобы сломать лед, в первый день сьемки сцены с ней, Байнона спрятался под кроватью и схватил ее за ногу, когда она вошла в темноту комнаты, в которой нашла отравленных детей. Крик Чаплин в фильме это - всего лишь крик испуга: она никак не ожидала неожиданного "цапа" за ногу из под кровати.

Диана
Вообще режисеры они все немного с прибабахом. Прикол еще мощнее, если знать, как этот момент выглядит в фильме.