Lore

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Lore

Released Feb 8, 2013

1h 49m

Drama

War

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As Allied forces sweep across Germany, five children embark on a journey that challenges their notions of family, love and friendship.

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Critics Consensus

Newcomer Saskia Rosendahl gives an astonishingly assured performance in the title role, and director Cate Shortland establishes a delicate, disturbingly ominous tone in the powerful World War II drama Lore.

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Lore, from Australian director Cate Shortland, proceeds like a long-ago fairy tale, dark-hued, grounded in real-life 20th-century horrors.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 1, 2014

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Roger Clarke

Sight & Sound

Lore is a akin to a bourgeois German version of Elem Klimov's 1985 Belarus-set Come and See, and it has some outstanding features. The star turn is the lurking cinematography of Adam Arkapaw.

Jan 1, 2014

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

The Australian director Cate Shortland has made a quite stunning film about the collapse of Nazi Germany, seen not from a Berlin bunker but through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl.

Rated: 5/5

Jan 1, 2014

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Annlee Ellingson

CineWomen

[Cate] Shortland get[s] up close and personal with intimate, handheld camerawork as Lore confronts what she’s been taught and her family’s legacy of fascism and genocide, blue eyes popping with judgment, hate, fear, confusion, and, finally, resolve.

Jul 28, 2024

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Dave Giannini

InSession Film

Lore is a movie that rewards patience.

Feb 27, 2024

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

A film you simply don't want to miss.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 14, 2020

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charles w

WOW! One of the most powerful and tragic stories of survival I have ever watched.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

I didn't agree with the critics. The movie is ok but not a best picture foreign Oscar's; must been ok only year.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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peter w

How to you summon up the resources to adapt to a complete overhaul of your life and values? Cate Shortland does not sugar-coat the personal re-evaluation that Lore faces when the structures that provided a privileged life crumbles away with the defeat and death of the Furer. There was likely nothing in her experience that could prepare Lore for the life and death struggle of fleeing on foot with four younger siblings to the safety of grandmother's house (who happened to bear more than some resemblance to the "bad wolf"). Nor was there any life experience that could help her see the Jewish traveler who helped them as anything but a pariah. But we are drawn in to watched the beginning of a transformation of values deftly managed by Saskia Rosendahl under the sympathetic direction of Shortland.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Jesse D

A deeply tragic look at those dark days immediately following wwii. It is told from the point of view rarely seen. The losers.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/29/21

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Tim G

Fascinating time period to examine.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/21

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Audience Member

Captures the perspective of an early teen who has grown up in an ideology that is unraveling, that moment and phase of life combined with suddenly being thrust into a struggle for survival. Good on the nuances of guilt, innocence, and complicity, victim and perpetrator. The repressed emotion of the ending worked for me.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Synopsis

As Allied forces sweep across Germany, five children embark on a journey that challenges their notions of family, love and friendship.

Director: Cate Shortland
Producer: Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stoter, Liz Watts, Paul Welsh
Screenwriter: Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Porchlight Films, Edge City Films, Rohfilm
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 8, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $968.9K
Runtime: 1h 49m

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