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Lore (2013)
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Critic 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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Cast
as Lore
as Thomas
as Liesel
as Mutti
as Vati
as Jürgen
as Jürgen
as Günter
as Omi
as Young German Soldier
as Baby Peter
as Farmer
as Helmut
as Farmer's Wife
as Ox Cart Man
as Ox Cart Woman
as Young Woman with Baby
as School House Woman 1
as School House Woman 2
as School House Woman 3
as Widow
as U.S. Soldier Truck
as U.S. Soldier
as U.S. Soldier
as Boatman
as U.S. Soldier Checkpoint
as Young Brunette
as German Soldier 1
as Young Blonde
as German Soldier 2
as British Train Soldier
as British Train Soldier
as Maid
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Critic Reviews for Lore
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Lore, from Australian director Cate Shortland, proceeds like a long-ago fairy tale, dark-hued, grounded in real-life 20th-century horrors.
The young principals here, Malina and especially Rosendahl, are superb at conveying that premature hardening, their elastic minds pummelled by inelastic forces.
The sins of the Fatherland send a German teenage girl and her Nazi-connected family on the run in Australian director Cate Shortland's vividly rendered and sensual drama Lore.
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.
Saskia 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.
Audience Reviews for Lore
A disastrous drama that feels repetitious and pointless, never making clear what Shortland wants to say with this - and her heavy-handed direction makes even more blatant the way she embraces the most obvious soap-opera clichés and cheap narrative artifices.
Super Reviewer
A fascinating look at the family of a Nazi officer after suffering defeat in 1945, and difficulty they and their countrymen have in grappling with a shattered world view. Beautifully filmed with a haunting performance by Rosendahl as she is forced from her cocoon of Nazi idealism and privilege into a world of privation, death and chaos. Excellently directed, "Lore" is a stunning and thought-provoking experience in a way different from any other World War II films I have seen. Highly recommended.
Super Reviewer
Jane Campion visuals, only Jane does it so much better; "Two Women" derivative, although there is little to compare, why did this story have to make it to the screen? It is an affront to show these healthy and robust survivors, besmudged with some grime to show the passing of time, when there was little left for any one. Rubbish!
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