Thursday, 10 December 2015

A journey through defeat

Lore (2012)

Directed by Cate Shortland this film based on a story from the book “The Dark Room” stars Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina and Nele Trebs. In the days after the end of WW2 the eldest daughter of an SS officer leads her younger siblings across Germany to try to get to their grandmother in Hamburg.

The plot of this film is about the clash between the Nazi ideology the protagonist was raised with in and the defeated Germany she finds herself in. It seems there are some deviations between the film and it's source material but this is still a strong story reminiscent of Germany, Year Zero (1948). Directed in a very slow and withdrawn style I found this to be a really enjoyable film that really captures the mood of it's characters.


4/5

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