Che delusione!
Uno parte con l'idea di vedersi un bel trash, ed invece si ritrova con un prodotto più che degno...
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Coppia un po' in crisi con un paio di figli a carico ed uno nella tomba, decide di adottare Esther, una ragazzina tanto educata quanto schiva.
La piccola non tarderà a rivelarsi un soggetto molto più complesso e problematico per tutti.
I presupposti della schifezza c'erano tutti (a partire da un mediocre
regista), ed invece alla fine questo
Orphan fa un ottimo lavoro nel mantere interesse e tensione.
Il segreto è un ingrediente sempre pregiato: violenza commessa (e subita) da bambini. Grazie al cielo non parliamo poi dell'ennesimo bimbetto inquietante e/o posseduto dal demonio: qui la ragazzina ha un piano ed è metodica nel realizzarlo!
Un film di due ore che non annoia, non è eccessivamente banale e non sfrutta per la milionesima volta i soliti cliché merita davvero un elogio (carini anche i titoli di coda).
Intendiamoci: non è un capolavoro assoluto del cinema, ma non gli si poteva davvero chiedere più di così. E non scordiamo
Vera Farmiga, che è sempre un bel vedere.
Di mio poi mi bullo di aver indovinato il twist della trama con ampio anticipo.
Voto: 7.5. Se vi capita, recuperatelo.
Tags: horror, drammatico, thriller, orfana, orfanotrofio, adozione, bambina, morte, omicidio, incendio, suora, cadavere, famiglia, alcool, alcolismo, ponte, gioco, seduzione, sesso, parto, operazione, sordomuta, figlio, figlia, pistola, sterilità, casa sull'albero, psichiatra, diario, marito, moglie, coltello, dentiera, sociopatia, twist.
Orphan (2009)
Regista: Jaume Collet-Serra Scrittore: David Johnson,
Alex Mace Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.2/10 (20862 voti)
Durata: 123 min
Paese: USA, Canada, Germany, France
Lingua: English, American Sign Language, Estonian
Cast:Trama:Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their troubled marriage. Kate had a drinking problem, but is in therapy and is doing well. She has been sober for one year. The couple decides to adopt a child. When they meet the nine-year-old Russian girl, Esther, at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love with the well-educated orphan. Their young son, Daniel, is hostile to his new sister; but their deaf-mute daughter, little Max, is enchanted with her - at first. Eventually, Kate begins to feel that Esther is manipulative and possibly even psychologically disturbed. John refuses to listen to his wife's misgivings, and the wounds in their marriage reopen. Kate calls Sister Abigail at the orphanage, and the nun informs her that Esther has a troubled and mysterious history. Kate delves further into Esther's past and discovers she is not at all who she pretends to be.
Trivia random: The language spoken by the Saarne Institute receptionist is Estonian; this is what she says: "Saarne Instituute, kas ma saan teid aidata?" (Saarne Institute, can I help you?) "Kuidas palun?" (I'm sorry?) "Ma ei saa aru. Oota üks silmapilk." (I don't understand. Wait a moment.)
Citazione random: [last lines]
Kate Coleman: [to Max] Baby, it's okay... Share this quote
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Farmiga, Vera
Nome di battesimo: Farmiga, Vera Ann
Data di nascita: 6 August 1973
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Renn Hawkey::(September 2008 - present) 1 child, Sebastian Roché::(1997 - 2005) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Vera Farmiga was born second of seven children on August 6, 1973, in Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. She did not speak English until the age of six, and was raised in a strict Ukrainian Catholic home of her father, Michael (Mykola) Farmiga, and her mother, Lyubov (Lyuba) Farmiga. She attended a Ukrainian Catholic school, then went to public school, and was a shy nearsighted girl wearing spectacles while practicing her piano, and was switching to contact lenses for dancing. Farmiga was touring with a Ukrainian folk-dancing company in her teens. In 1991, she graduated from Hunterdon Central regional high school and initially dreamed of becoming an optometrist, but eventually changed her mind, and studied acting at Syracuse University's School of Performing Arts. She began her professional acting career in 1996, making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the play "Taking Sides". Her stage credits included performances in "The Tempest", "The Glass Menagerie", "Hamlet", and in a well-reviewed Off-Broadway production "Second-Hand Smoke" (1997). At the same time, she made her television debut as a female lead, "Catlin", opposite then unknown Heath Ledger in Fox's adventure series "Roar" (1997). In 1998, Farmiga made her big screen debut in the drama Return to Paradise (1998), then played daughters of Christopher Walken in The Opportunists (2000) and Richard Gere in Autumn in New York (2000). She starred as a working-class mother struggling to keep her life and marriage together while hiding her drug addiction in Down to the Bone (2004), for which she won Best Actress Awards from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Farmiga's acting talent shone in a range of characters, from her memorable role as the senator's daughter opposite Jon Voight in The Manchurian Candidate (2004), to a mental patient in an insane asylum in Neverwas (2005). She co-stars as the wife of a mobster opposite Paul Walker in Running Scared (2006), as a humorous prostitute in Breaking and Entering (2006), and as a doctor in The Departed (2006). Farmiga was formerly married to a fellow actor Sebastian Roché, whom she met during her work on the series "Roar" (1997), and the two eloped to the Bahamas after the series end in 1997. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2005. She shares time between her residencies in New Jersey and in Los Angeles, California. Her activities outside her acting profession include reading, playing her piano, and spending time with her pet angora goats, an obsession she had since she was a child.
Trivia random: Announced she is expecting her first child, with boyfriend Renn Hawkey[September 2008].
Citazione random: As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer of the character. And that's what used to draw me to scripts -- something in a woman that I wanted to defend, something that I recognized or wanted to understand, something that turned my head. Now that I'm a mother, I think it's more the message of a film, or the questions that they pose about life -- that's the magnifying glass through which I look at them now. But at first it was all about the character.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Collet-Serra, Jaume
Data di nascita: 23 March 1974
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Directs music videos and TV commercials as "Jaume"
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
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