The first thing to know about “ Orphan ” is that the orphan of the title isn’t really one at all. Twelve-year-old Andor (Bojtorján Barabás) has a mother who is alive and well and present, as much as she can be, while his father is — well, that’s where things get complicated. In his turbulent young mind, however, Andor may as well be alone in the world. In the unforgiving wasteland of 1950s communist Hungary, a country still licking the wounds of a war and a failed revolution, his care appears not to be the first thing on anyone’s mind, and for better or worse, the boy soon comes to trust nobody but himself. It’s a harsh coming-of-age arc that László Nemes’ third feature traces in slow, stately and strangely honey-dipped fashion: an almost unbearably anguished childhood rendered almost nu

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