Orphan,’ the new film by László Nemes, tells a bleak story of a Jewish boy in 1950s Budapest

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• 01Orphan,’ the new film by László Nemes, tells a bleak story of a Jewish boy in 1950s Budapest.
• 02László Nemes burst onto the international movie scene with this first feature film, Son of Saul (2015), which told the story of a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, the unit tasked with disposing the millions of murdered bodies at the death camp.
• 03Based on the story of Nemes’s own father, it is about a 12-year-old boy named Andor (Bojtorján Barabás) in Budapest in 1957.
• 04The movie has some stylistic similarities with another, very different portrait of a troubled childhood, Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, especially in its refusal to sentimentalize anything.
• 05Where most Holocaust dramas were slow-paced, and some, like Schindler’s List, even featured tasteful black-and-white cinematography and dialogue in English (one of the only European languages not spoken by a sizable percentage of death-camp inmates), Son of Saul went for grueling realism.
• 06It was such a perfectly conceived and realized movie that it won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, as well as the Grand Prix at Cannes, and dozens of other awards.
• 07His follow-up feature, Sunset, was far more modest, and now he has a new film, Orphan, which opens Thursday in Israel.