The Orphanage
City Varieties
17 November • 10pm
Hyde Park Picture House
18 November • 5.45pm
Hyde Park Picture House
18 November • 8.30pm
Juan Antonio Bayona's debut made an incredible impact at its world premiere screening in Cannes earlier this year. Culminating with the director being carried on the shoulders of the film's producer, one Guillermo del Toro, to rapturous applause from an exhausted and overwhelmed audience. The film tells the story of Laura who returns to the beautiful but mysterious house where she was raised, and decides to transform it into an orphanage. Soon, her son, Simón, makes an invisible friend.....
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The Orphanage is a truly rare gem, a horror film that forces you to experience palpable, nerve shredding tension. As the slowly constructed rhythm of one shocking set piece after another holds you transfixed one minute and wanting to look away and reach for the exit the next.
Screening Details
- City Varieties • 17 November • 10pm • £6/£4.50
- Hyde Park Picture House • 18 November • 5.45pm • £6/£4.50
- Hyde Park Picture House • 18 November • 8.30pm • £6/£4.50