Copious amounts of landscape and wilderness shots cover up its schematic plot, as its indirect visual allusions take precedence over thematic development.
Lore
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Germany, Australia, United Kingdom · 2012
1h 45m
Director Cate Shortland
Starring Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi
Genre Drama, War, Thriller
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After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must trust someone she was taught to hate and face the darkness within herself.
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What are critics saying?
What starts as a flipped survival tale turns into historical tragisploitation that wallows in its slog of endless suffering.
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Australian director Cate Shortland’s straightforward approach to the blinders worn by Hitler Youth creates a disconcerting and eerie film, made even more memorable since it’s seen through the prism of childhood’s end.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
At its heart Lore qualifies as a coming-of-age story, but it is far from the ones we usually see.
The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth
While a film of great craft, strongly performed by the cast across the board, and particulary by the lead, newcomer Saskia Rosendahl, Lore never lets the audience in close enough for it to be a truly embraceable picture.
Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan
Shortland, whose only previous feature was 2004's coming-of-age drama "Somersault," creates a visceral, immersive environment and draws a very impressive performance from newcomer Saskia Rosendahl.
If nothing else, Shortland gives Rosendahl a star-making platform on par with Cornish’s in "Somersault": She’s a magnetic screen presence who subtly conveys not only the struggle and guilt inherent to her situation, but also a residue of hate that’s carried over from her parents. The actor, like her character, shoulders a heavy burden.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The film sustains an air of overarching mystery in which the viewer, like the title character, is in the position of a sheltered child plunked into an alien environment and required to fend for herself without a map or compass.
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