{"id":1001,"date":"2014-03-01T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2014-03-01T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T15:46:06","slug":"the-orphanage-showing-at-the-gulbenkian-cinema-on-the-4th-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2014\/03\/01\/the-orphanage-showing-at-the-gulbenkian-cinema-on-the-4th-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orphanage showing at The Gulbenkian Cinema on the 4th of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Posted by Sarah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The fifth film in the Gulbenkian \u00a0Cinema\u2019s\u00a0Gothic Season \u2013 J.A. Bayona&#8217;s The Orphanage (2007) &#8211;\u00a0screens on Tuesday 4th of March \u00a0at 9.30pm. It will be\u00a0preceded by a panel discussion which will include contributions from the Melodrama Research Group&#8217;s Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald, as well as Dr Cecilia Sayad and Professor Nuria Triana-Toribio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/02\/The-Orphanage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1013\" alt=\"The Orphanage\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/02\/The-Orphanage.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/02\/The-Orphanage.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/02\/The-Orphanage-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The Gulbenkian Cinema\u2019s description of the film:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">J. A. Bayona | Spain | 2007 | 106mins | Bel\u00e9n\u00a0 Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Pr\u00edncep<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This terrific Spanish horror film, the debut of J. A.\u00a0 Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan\u2019s Labyrinth, received great acclaim on its release in 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After thirty years, Laura returns to orphanage where she\u00a0 grew up, accompanied by her husband Carlos and their 7-year-old son Sim\u00f3n, with\u00a0 a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned mansion as a home for\u00a0 disabled children. The place awakens Sim\u00f3n\u2019s imagination, and he soon begins\u00a0 playing not-so-innocent games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As events take a sinister turn, Laura slowly becomes\u00a0 convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house,\u00a0 something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family, in this\u00a0 cleverly made, utterly terrifying film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cA shiver of fear\u00a0 runs right through Juan Antonio Bayona\u2019s pungent and scary film\u201d <\/em>Peter Bradshaw, The\u00a0 Guardian, 4 stars<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cA good old-fashioned\u00a0 horror in the best possible way, this is a beautifully told, terrifying ghost\u00a0 story that lingers with you long after the shivers have stopped\u201d<\/em> Olly Richards, Empire\u00a0 Magazine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Spanish\u00a0 w\/Eng ST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For more information and to book your ticket please go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/cinema\/2014\/March\/2014-03-the-orphanage.html\">http:\/\/www.thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/cinema\/2014\/March\/2014-03-the-orphanage.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Sarah The fifth film in the Gulbenkian \u00a0Cinema\u2019s\u00a0Gothic Season \u2013 J.A. Bayona&#8217;s The Orphanage (2007) &#8211;\u00a0screens on Tuesday 4th of March \u00a0at 9.30pm. It will be\u00a0preceded by a panel discussion which will include contributions from the Melodrama Research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2014\/03\/01\/the-orphanage-showing-at-the-gulbenkian-cinema-on-the-4th-of-march\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,124],"tags":[92907,92908,5083,92905,50775,1256,92906,92909,92754,92810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}