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Lore

2012

Cate Shortland

Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel ...

6.4

3,936

Drama In spring 1945, the German army collapses. As the Allied forces sweep across the country, with her parents absent and the Third Reich crumbling, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) must lead her four siblings 500km across Germany to the sanctuary of her grandmother's North Sea home.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Empire	"Shortland's measured pacing and hypnotic visuals make this a mesmerising journey through a defeated landscape. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joe Neumaier New York Daily News	"A disconcerting and eerie film, made even more memorable since it's seen through the prism of childhood's end (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The film sustains an air of overarching mystery in which the viewer (...) is in the position of a sheltered child plunked into an alien environment and required to fend for herself without a map or compass."	POS
United States	Richard Kuipers Variety	"Offers a fresh, intimate and mostly successful perspective on Germany's traumatic transition from conqueror nation to occupied state."	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Australian director Cate Shortland's drama is overflowing with such poetic visual touches, conjuring up a fairytale landscape of long shadows, wafting curtains and waving fronds. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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