Lore (2012)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 83 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 1
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Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. Led by the eldest sibling, 14-year old Lore (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl), they set out on a harrowing journey across a devastated country to reach their grandmother in the north. After meeting the
Cast
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Saskia Rosendahl
Lore -
Kai Malina
Thomas -
Ursina Lardi
Mutti -
Hans-Jochen Wagner
Vati -
Nele Trebs
Liesel -
Mika Siedel
Jürgen -
André Frid
Günter, Günther -
Eva-Maria Hagen
Omi -
Mike Weidner
Young German Soldier -
Nick Leander Holaschke
Baby Peter -
Sven Pippig
Farmer -
Philip Wiegratz
Helmut -
Katrin Pollitt
Farmer's Wife -
Hendrik Arnst
Ox Cart Man -
Claudia Geisler
Ox Cart Woman -
Ulrike Medgyesy
Young Woman with Baby -
Katharina Spiering
School House Woman 1 -
Franziska Traub
School House Woman 2 -
Hanne Wolharn
School House Woman 3 -
Friederike Frerichs
Widow -
Fabian Stumm
U.S. Soldier Truck -
Tim Karasch
U.S. Soldier -
Daniel Kohl
U.S. Soldier -
Jan Peter Heyne
Boatman -
Jochen Doring
U.S. Soldier Checkpoint -
Birte Schnoing
Young Brunette -
Lucas Reiber
German Soldier 1 -
Wanda Colombina
Young Blonde -
Pit Bukowski
German Soldier 2 -
Glenn Arrowsmith
British Train Soldier -
Paul Welsh
British Train Soldier -
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Mika Nilson Seidel
Jürgen -
Kai-Peter Malina
Thomas
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All Critics (90) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (7)
It's a harrowing walk through the heart of darkness.
Top CriticSaskia Rosendahl gives an impressively poised performance as the beautiful teenager, whose determination to protect her remaining family coincides with her growing revulsion toward her parents.
"Lore" is not a pretty story, but it is a good and sadly believable one.
"Lore" is not a love story, nor the story of a friendship. Rather, it's a story of healing and of how breaking, sometimes painfully, is often necessary before that process can begin.
A fiercely poetic portrait of a young woman staggering beyond innocence and denial, it's about the wars that rage within after the wars outside are lost.
Full of surprises, the movie draws a thin line between pity and revulsion - how would you feel if you had discovered your whole life had been based on lies?
Think "Little Red Riding Hood" meets The Road.
Unflinching but thoroughly engrossing, the film provides a rarely depicted look at the Holocaust's other innocent victims. Beautiful cinematography by Adam Arkapaw.
Proves that there is always room for another [World War II] story if it can be presented in an original and unexpected fashion.
Texture and detail embellish a provocative story
Child of Nazi parents faces an uncertain future
[Director Cate] Shortland directs with an almost hypnotic focus, favoring Lore's immediate experience over the big picture.
Rosendahl's performance is raw and compelling, as Lore fights for her siblings' survival and grows up in a hurry.
Lore and her siblings make a harrowing journey across Germany
Worthwhile, but so subtle that it's frustrating.
The Australian-German co-production takes an unconventional tale and turns it into a challenging, visually stunning and emotionally turbulent film experience.
Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go. Except this ain't no fairy tale... unless it is, perhaps, a hint of the beginnings of a new mythology of ... scary childhood and even scarier adolescence...
With a child's perspective on war, "Lore" deserves comparisons with "Empire of the Sun" and "Hope and Glory," and with a feisty female protagonist it stands virtually alone.
Rosendahl...provides both narrative and emotional continuity to a film whose deliberate pace and fragmented presentation of reality might otherwise prove exasperating.
A burning portrait of consciousness and endurance, gracefully acted and strikingly realized, producing an honest sense of emotional disruption, while concluding on a powerful note of cultural and familial rejection.
Although there are moments that push the story a bit beyond credulity, Shortland has created something remarkable by forcing us to find within ourselves sympathy for this would-be Aryan princess.
Stunning, admirable and indelible - truthfully chronicling the triumph of the human spirit - in a class with Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon.'
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