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Dec
28
2007

THE ORPHANAGE—The Greencine Interview With Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio Sánchez

Posted by Michael Guillen at 10:09am.

Posted in Film News , Thriller, Drama, Horror, Continental Europe & Russia.

I had the opportunity to speak with Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona twice this year regarding his debut feature The Orphanage, opening nationwide today.  Our first conversation at Toronto will be published next month in my new gig movieScope (out of London); but, my more recent conversation here in San Francisco with both Bayona and scriptwriter Sergio Sánchez is up and running today at Greencine.

Dave Hudson gathers up the continuing critical response to the film—including his aggregates from Cannes, Toronto and New York—at The Greencine Daily.

Cross-published on The Evening Class.  Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Wells.

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Reader Comments

  1. Blake 12/28/2007 @ 4:28pm

    Such a vibrant interview! I love the Belen Rueda reference to Sissy Spacek. I remember seeing her in Spain and kept thinking she reminded me so much of another actress and it wasn’t until I read that in your interview that it finally clicked. Such an amazing performance she has in the film! Thanks for bringing back the curtains for the film, I certainly will be rewatching the film again tomorrow with much of this information in mind.

  2. Michael Guillen 12/29/2007 @ 12:50am

    Thanks, Blake!

  3. Blake 12/29/2007 @ 5:31pm

    Funny enough I saw this again today and got so caught up in the film I forgot about being on the lookout for various things. I certainly caught a lot more overall on the second viewing though and seeing clues scattered throughout early on that add up in later parts of the film.

    One lady in the audience screamed bloody murder in one of the scares of the film.

    Watching it from a more Peter Pan POV overall was really illuminating!

    One thing of note I noticed in particular was one scene where Belen is by the roses and you can softly hear for a split second the laughter of the children in the background.

  4. Michael Guillen 12/30/2007 @ 10:37am

    Isn’t it strange how the sound of children laughing can be so ... ominous?  It would be quite a list of films where that sound has instilled fear.

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