Word: laura
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...Orphanage” is also Spain’s 2007 Academy Awards nominee for Best Foreign Film. It commanded the biggest opening of the year in Spain as well as the second highest box office debut ever for a Spanish movie in the country. The film beings with Laura (Belén Rueda) returning to the eerie orphanage where she used to live in as a child along with her husband and son. As mysteries surface around the building and her seven-year-old son grows increasingly obsessed with his invisible friends, Laura begins to worry about the state...
...result feels jumbled and jumpy. Crucial elements of the film fail to develop, leaving the audience confused. The older Dominic acts much too frail in his performance, and such affectations detract from the film’s overall coherence. Dominic’s few interactions with his estranged love Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara) further splinter the film’s cohesion. Ignored for most of the film, their relationship is left very much unexplained, which hinders the audience from connecting with his character or sharing in his joy decades later, when he finds her again. Lara churns out a good...
...Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...make sure we have very full planning before we actually break ground on new projects.”—Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Laurence H.M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard...