Lore

Lore 2012

• Director: Cate Shortland
• Based on the book by Rachel Seiffert
• Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, Ursini Lardi, Kai Malina
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• None of them but they were all very good
• Why? It sounded good.
• Seen: 8 February 2020      

       The war is over. The Germans have lost. Fifteen-year-old Lore (Rosendahl) and her younger siblings are deserted by their Nazi parents and they must make their way across a war-torn Germany to their grandmother.

       Fate brings them together with a young Jewish man Thomas (Malina) and a kind of love-hate relationship ensues.

       It’s very slow with a lot of close-ups of nature and staring people. This is a style of filming that generally does not appeal to me. Nor does it here. I’m disappointed. The subject is so important, the potential for a brilliant film is so great. It should provoke deep feelings. It seems that in most viewers it does, but not in me.

       The strongest part is the showing of a German people in denial, still loving their Führer.

3* of 5 (Hal says 4½)