05/03/2007

Swedish major arthouse distributor Triangel Film remains in the top 10 for the third week in a row with Guillermo del Toro’s three time Oscar-winning film Pan’s Labyrinth [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], which grossed some €218,400 from a dozen cinemas nationwide.

Swedish lovers of chiller films will be happy to know that the name of the Mexican filmmaker is also linked to another upcoming Triangel release, The Orphanage, the directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, produced by del Toro. The film – bought from Wild Bunch by Triangel’s managing director Mattias Nohrborg at this year’s Berlinale – is a supernatural thriller set in Northern Spain.

Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their seven year-old son, with the dream of restoring and reopening the long abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon's imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games.

The film stars Geraldine Chaplin, Belén Rueda, Mabel Rivera and Fernando Cayo and is produced by Rodar Y Rodar and Estudios Picasso. Triangel plans to release it later this year.

Other European films that Triangel will release over the upcoming months include the two Italian films Golden Door [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alexandre Mallet-Guy
interview: Charlotte Gainsbourg
interview: Emanuele Crialese
interview: Emanuele Crialese
interview: Fabrizio Mosca
film profile] by Emmanuele Crialese (March 9) and Along the Ridge [+see also:
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interview: Kim Rossi Stuart
film profile] by Kim Rossi Stuart (March 23); French film The Page Turner [+see also:
film review
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interview: Denis Dercourt
interview: Michel Saint-Jean
film profile] by Denis Dercourt (April 27) and the UK/Canadian co-production Tideland [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Terry Gilliam.