★★★★☆ Cate Shortland's quietly powerful sophomore film, Lore (2012), is set in Germany during the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. This German-Australian co-production, based on the middle section of Rachel Seiffert's 2001 novel The Dark Room, is told from the perspective of a young German girl who has to come to terms with her nation's defeat and the horrors committed in the name of the Führer. We follow teenager Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) as she travels with her four siblings from Bavaria, across war-devastated Germany, to find refuge with her grandmother in Hamburg. Lore's father is a high ranking SS officer.
Through marriage, her mother is also directly implicated in the Holocaust. In the dying days of the war, Lore's father returns home, packs up his stuff, burns a lot of incriminating evidence and then disappears, presumably to an internment camp. Lore's mother gives herself up for...
Through marriage, her mother is also directly implicated in the Holocaust. In the dying days of the war, Lore's father returns home, packs up his stuff, burns a lot of incriminating evidence and then disappears, presumably to an internment camp. Lore's mother gives herself up for...
- 5/27/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Blu-ray, Digital, VOD & DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Music Box Films
Six children learn the truth about Nazis after the Holocaust in the highly acclaimed indie film Lore.
The movie stars newcomer Saskia Rosendahl as the titular 14-year-old, whose Nazi parents are imprisoned by the Allies at the end of World War II. Alone, Lore leads her siblings across the devastated Germany to get to the safety of their grandmother’s house in the north.
During their journey, they struggle to survive the post-war conditions. When they meet a mysterious young refugee, Lore finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she must trust the one person she has always been taught to hate.
The drama movie, which is based on the 2001 novel by Rachel Seiffert, was directed and co-written by Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland (Somersault).
Lore was nominated for eight Australian Academy...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Music Box Films
Six children learn the truth about Nazis after the Holocaust in the highly acclaimed indie film Lore.
The movie stars newcomer Saskia Rosendahl as the titular 14-year-old, whose Nazi parents are imprisoned by the Allies at the end of World War II. Alone, Lore leads her siblings across the devastated Germany to get to the safety of their grandmother’s house in the north.
During their journey, they struggle to survive the post-war conditions. When they meet a mysterious young refugee, Lore finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she must trust the one person she has always been taught to hate.
The drama movie, which is based on the 2001 novel by Rachel Seiffert, was directed and co-written by Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland (Somersault).
Lore was nominated for eight Australian Academy...
- 4/4/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Review by Barbara Snitzer
Lore is not a typical Holocaust movie. It’s not even a typical war movie, although both subjects are of paramount importance to its story.
It boldly portrays its protagonists, staunch supporters of Hitler and his Third Reich as sympathetic human beings. It is a mind-opening experience to realize that his devotees were also victims, albeit in a completely different way than the Jews and others who perished in his systematic murder.
They were deceived, humiliated, and preyed upon each other like animals, nothing resembling the superior race of humans he proclaimed they were.
Lore centers on fifteen-year old Hannelore (excellently portrayed by Saskia Rosendahl) who is for all intents and purposes orphaned in the days after the Allies’ victory. She must lead her younger sister, twin brothers and infant brother across the no-man’s land that Germany has become.
She has the good fortune to...
Lore is not a typical Holocaust movie. It’s not even a typical war movie, although both subjects are of paramount importance to its story.
It boldly portrays its protagonists, staunch supporters of Hitler and his Third Reich as sympathetic human beings. It is a mind-opening experience to realize that his devotees were also victims, albeit in a completely different way than the Jews and others who perished in his systematic murder.
They were deceived, humiliated, and preyed upon each other like animals, nothing resembling the superior race of humans he proclaimed they were.
Lore centers on fifteen-year old Hannelore (excellently portrayed by Saskia Rosendahl) who is for all intents and purposes orphaned in the days after the Allies’ victory. She must lead her younger sister, twin brothers and infant brother across the no-man’s land that Germany has become.
She has the good fortune to...
- 3/16/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lore is director Cate Shortland’s long-awaited follow-up to Somersault, her acclaimed 2004 drama and feature film debut that was also an international breakthrough for stars Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington. A UK/Australia/Germany co-production, the new film is similarly concerned with a young female protagonist. Following the defeat of the Nazis, teenager Lore must guide herself and her destitute siblings through Germany in the dying days of the Second World War. Her parents having been arrested by Allied Forces for their Nazi ties, Lore has assimilated many of their anti-Semitic values, and must come to terms with the horrors of Hitler’s rule now coming to light for the German population.
Ahead of its recent Glasgow Film Festival showing prior to the film’s theatrical release in the UK, I spoke to one of Lore‘s producers, Paul Welsh, about the film’s interesting, lengthy production process, its influences,...
Ahead of its recent Glasgow Film Festival showing prior to the film’s theatrical release in the UK, I spoke to one of Lore‘s producers, Paul Welsh, about the film’s interesting, lengthy production process, its influences,...
- 3/3/2013
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
One of the most powerful war stories to appear on screen. A story of the universal defeat of war and the enduring survival of the human spirit. Written by director Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee and based on the novel .The Dark Room. by Rachel Seiffert, .Lore. tells a story of wartime heartbreak and betrayal. The betrayal is that of the German people by the Nazi Third Reich. As amazing as it seems, the average German citizen revered Adolph Hitler as a patriot and statesman, until the truth came out after the defeat of Germany at the hands of the Allies. Lore stars Saskia Rosendahl as Lore, Nele Trebs as her younger sister Liesel and André Frid as one of...
- 2/20/2013
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Coming of age is never easy, but the adolescent protagonist of this impressionistic and nuanced film has to do it amidst the devastation in a crumbling Germany at the end of World War II. "Lore" is based on "The Dark Room," a 2001 Booker Prize-nominated novel by British author Rachel Seiffert. The movie's title character is Hannalore (Saskia Rosendahl) -- Lore is the diminutive -- the eldest daughter of a mother and father who are staunch Nazis. Lore's dad is an officer in the SS and her mom is a true believer...
- 2/7/2013
- by Leah Rozen
- The Wrap
In telling the story of Lore (Saskia Rosendahl), a 14-year-old daughter of Nazi parents who travels across a devastated Germany in 1945, Cate Shortland’s Lore, adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s novel The Dark Room, plays with fire. As the director acknowledges, it could easily be misread as a statement that (Gentile) Germans were also victims of World War II. Instead, the film suggests what it’s like to fall from great privilege. Without fully understanding what it means to be a Nazi and what responsibility for evil her parents hold, Lore goes from being rich and well cared for to being treated …...
- 2/5/2013
- by Steven Erickson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Check out the trailer and images for Music Box Films' Lore directed by Cate Shortland. starring Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs and André Frid. The war drama opens in theaters February 8th and is also scripted by Shortland, who adapts from the novel by Rachel Seiffert. The year is 1945. Left to fend for herself when her SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, Lore, a fourteen-year-old German girl (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl), must lead her four siblings on a harrowing journey across a devastated country. When she meets the charismatic...
- 1/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the trailer and images for Music Box Films' Lore directed by Cate Shortland. starring Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs and André Frid. The war drama opens in theaters February 8th and is also scripted by Shortland, who adapts from the novel by Rachel Seiffert. The year is 1945. Left to fend for herself when her SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, Lore, a fourteen-year-old German girl (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl), must lead her four siblings on a harrowing journey across a devastated country. When she meets the charismatic...
- 1/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Two Australian short films, Men of the Earth and Faraways, and feature Lore will screen at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), one of the largest audience-driven film festivals in the world.
The ten-minute short Men of the Earth, which will also be shown at the upcoming Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, attempts to explore tribalism and ritual in contemporary society. The film takes the audiences behind a roadwork site and presents the sombre ritual of working men. Men of the Earth is written and directed by Andrew Kavanagh. It is his second collaboration with creative producer Ramona Telecican.
Another short film Faraways, from writer/director/producer Audrey Lam, will also screen at this year.s Rotterdam. The story takes place in the empty urban landscapes of Brisbane which echoes the isolation of two girls far from home.
Iffr 2013 program will also present the German/Australian co-production Lore,...
The ten-minute short Men of the Earth, which will also be shown at the upcoming Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, attempts to explore tribalism and ritual in contemporary society. The film takes the audiences behind a roadwork site and presents the sombre ritual of working men. Men of the Earth is written and directed by Andrew Kavanagh. It is his second collaboration with creative producer Ramona Telecican.
Another short film Faraways, from writer/director/producer Audrey Lam, will also screen at this year.s Rotterdam. The story takes place in the empty urban landscapes of Brisbane which echoes the isolation of two girls far from home.
Iffr 2013 program will also present the German/Australian co-production Lore,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Yuan Liu
- IF.com.au
“Lore” is one of a record 71 films this year that are vying for a coveted Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Adapted by writer/director Cate Shortland from the bestselling novel “The Dark Room” by Rachel Seiffert, it follows the journey of five siblings, led by 14 year-old Lore (played by leading lady Saskia Rosendahl) who are forced to travel from southern Germany to their grandmother’s home on the North Sea coast during the dying days of World War II, after their Nazi collaborator parents are arrested and interned by allied forces. Shortland's debut feature “Somersault” claimed numerous prizes and awards in her native Australia back in 2004, but it took eight years to follow up her early success, with a film that is particularly unconventional -- a German-language period piece by a non-German speaking director, focusing on Nazi perpetrators rather than the victims of Hitler’s regime.
- 11/30/2012
- Gold Derby
“Lore” is one of a record 71 films this year that are vying for a coveted Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Adapted by writer/director Cate Shortland from the bestselling novel “The Dark Room” by Rachel Seiffert, it follows the journey of five siblings, led by 14 year-old Lore (played by leading lady Saskia Rosendahl) who are forced to travel from southern Germany to their grandmother’s home on the North Sea coast during the dying days of World War II, after their Nazi collaborator parents are arrested and interned by allied forces. Shortland's debut feature “Somersault” claimed numerous prizes and awards in her native Australia back in 2004, but it took eight years to follow up her early success, with a film that is particularly unconventional -- a German-language period piece by a non-German speaking director, focusing on Nazi perpetrators rather than the victims of Hitler’s regime.
- 11/30/2012
- Gold Derby
Title: Lore Music Box Films Director: Cate Shortland Screenwriters: Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee from Rachel Seiffert’s novel “The Dark Room” Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/14/12 Opens: December 28, 2012 limited. February 8, 2013 wide. Perhaps this question is naïve: how did the Germans like being defeated in World War II? We know how Frau Magda Goebbels felt. As she wrote to one of her sons, then in a Pow camp in North Africa, ”Our glorious idea is ruined and with it everything beautiful and marvelous that I have known in my life. The world that comes after theFührer [ Read More ]
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- 11/15/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
This year’s BFI London Film Festival offers several new films based on books, reflecting a common trend in modern cinema and the recent film industry and proving that intelligent story-telling is something that should transcend format and translate through alternate medium. In some cases this is just loosely inspired by, where others can be straight page to screen interpretations… Here’s some of the highlights:
Some of the key texts that follow this trend are Salman Rushdie’s debut screenplay for the European premiere adaptation of his Booker prize winning novel; Midnight’s Children. Directed by Deepa Mehta, this Official Competition film is a riveting allegorical saga that parallels the dramatic upheavals in one’s family history with the events that would define contemporary India. Salman Rushdie is conducting a Q&A on this and his career as a renowned cinephile on 15th October.
Grassroots is director Stephen Gyllenhaal...
Some of the key texts that follow this trend are Salman Rushdie’s debut screenplay for the European premiere adaptation of his Booker prize winning novel; Midnight’s Children. Directed by Deepa Mehta, this Official Competition film is a riveting allegorical saga that parallels the dramatic upheavals in one’s family history with the events that would define contemporary India. Salman Rushdie is conducting a Q&A on this and his career as a renowned cinephile on 15th October.
Grassroots is director Stephen Gyllenhaal...
- 10/12/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Returning from an 8-year absence since her much-loved Aussie hit Somersault, Cate Shortland’s sophomore feature, adapted from a segment of Rachel Seiffert’s acclaimed novel The Dark Room, depicts the footnote days of World War 2 in a strange and confrontational manner like we’ve never seen before. The titular teenage character (Saskia Rosendahl) is called up to the responsibilities of adulthood early when her Nazi parents are incarcerated at the end of the war, leaving her to care for her four younger siblings in the unforgiving and oppressive environment of post-war Germany, as they trek almost 1000km to their grandmother’s home in Hamburg.
Lore’s resplendent, dreamlike visuals – lensed with the attention-to-detail we’ve come to expect from Adam Arkapaw (Animal Kingdom, Snowtown) – are ironic when juxtaposed with the grim reality of Lore’s predicament, not only as it pertains to the physical rigmarole of her journey,...
Returning from an 8-year absence since her much-loved Aussie hit Somersault, Cate Shortland’s sophomore feature, adapted from a segment of Rachel Seiffert’s acclaimed novel The Dark Room, depicts the footnote days of World War 2 in a strange and confrontational manner like we’ve never seen before. The titular teenage character (Saskia Rosendahl) is called up to the responsibilities of adulthood early when her Nazi parents are incarcerated at the end of the war, leaving her to care for her four younger siblings in the unforgiving and oppressive environment of post-war Germany, as they trek almost 1000km to their grandmother’s home in Hamburg.
Lore’s resplendent, dreamlike visuals – lensed with the attention-to-detail we’ve come to expect from Adam Arkapaw (Animal Kingdom, Snowtown) – are ironic when juxtaposed with the grim reality of Lore’s predicament, not only as it pertains to the physical rigmarole of her journey,...
- 10/11/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
After a fairly successful premieres on the festival scene throughout the year and the unveiling of a beautiful trailer, Cate Shortland's "Lore" is developing momentum ahead of its Australian theatrical release. We now have two stunning new clips from the film, which has also been annouced as Australia's entry for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. An adaptation of Rachel Seiffert's novella "The Dark Room," the German-language post-wwii road film stars newcomer Saskia Rosendahl as the daughter of an SS officer who must take her four siblings on a 900km journey across war-ravaged Germany to the safety of their grandparents' residence. Our Tiff review described Shortland's work as "a film of great craft, strongly performed by the cast across the board, and particulary by the lead, newcomer Saskia Rosendahl [that] never lets the audience in close enough for it to be a truly embraceable picture.
- 9/17/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Australian film Lore has won the audience award at Switzerland’s Locaro Film Festival over the weekend.
Directed by Cate Shortland, and distributed locally by Transmission, the film’s winning of the Piazza Grande Prix du Public award precedes its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film, produced by Liz Watts, adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room, revolves around a teenage girl in the final days of WWII in Nazi Germany.
Shortland said: “I am really excited by the way the film has been received in Europe – and proud of all our young actors. Locarno was a magical screening for 8000 people under the stars. It started to rain about three quarters of the way through but people stood under the eaves and waited to see the end. I’ll never forget it.”
Andrew Mackie, MD of Transmission Films said: “Cate Shortland is, without a doubt, one...
Directed by Cate Shortland, and distributed locally by Transmission, the film’s winning of the Piazza Grande Prix du Public award precedes its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film, produced by Liz Watts, adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room, revolves around a teenage girl in the final days of WWII in Nazi Germany.
Shortland said: “I am really excited by the way the film has been received in Europe – and proud of all our young actors. Locarno was a magical screening for 8000 people under the stars. It started to rain about three quarters of the way through but people stood under the eaves and waited to see the end. I’ll never forget it.”
Andrew Mackie, MD of Transmission Films said: “Cate Shortland is, without a doubt, one...
- 8/13/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
One of the lesser-known films included in yesterday's Tiff line up announcement, that we are no less excited for, is Australian helmer Cate Shortland's sophomore directorial effort, "Lore." An adaptation of Rachel Seiffert's novella "The Dark Room," the German-language post-wwii road film stars newcomer Saskia Rosendahl as the daughter of an SS officer who must take her four siblings on a 900km journey across war-ravaged Germany to the safety of their grandparents' residence. The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival last month to critical acclaim and now, on the back of its Tiff inclusion, the first trailer for the film has debuted over at Smh. Considering Shortland, who made her mark with debut "Somersault" starring Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington, is teaming here with "Animal Kingdom" and "The Hunter" DoP Adam Arkapaw, it's no surprise the film looks gorgeous, particularly the beautiful German...
- 7/25/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Here's a trio of posters from three very different helmers: one from a seasoned pro returning to live action after a stint in mo-cap, one following up a superb directorial debut with a foreign-language novel adaptation and the last a genre specialist tackling what he knows best.
First up is Robert Zemeckis' "Flight" which saw the first trailer drop this week. It looks like quite the character study for star Denzel Washington, who plays an alcoholic pilot who is heralded a hero after a plane accident. Of course, this being Zemeckis, there looks to a fair share of CGI action, with the last shot of the trailer showing a plane flying upside down. It looks like they must have blown the budget on the actual film, as the first poster is as simple as it gets. Not the worst but far from what'd you expect for a film starring...
First up is Robert Zemeckis' "Flight" which saw the first trailer drop this week. It looks like quite the character study for star Denzel Washington, who plays an alcoholic pilot who is heralded a hero after a plane accident. Of course, this being Zemeckis, there looks to a fair share of CGI action, with the last shot of the trailer showing a plane flying upside down. It looks like they must have blown the budget on the actual film, as the first poster is as simple as it gets. Not the worst but far from what'd you expect for a film starring...
- 6/8/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Two Australian films will feature in competition at the Sydney Film Festival, while five local features will get their world premieres.
Dead Europe, directed by Tony Krawitz, and Lore directed by Cate Shortland will compete In Competition, which carries a $60,000 prize.
For both films the festival will be their world premiere, along with other local features Not Suitable For Children, Mabo and Being Venice.
Krawitz’s Dead Europe is written by Louise Fox, adapted from a Christos Tsiolkas novel of the same name. It is produced by Liz Watts of Porchlight Films and Oscar-winner Emile Sherman of See Saw Films. The film is about an Australian photographer who visits his ancestral homeland of Greece after his father’s death. It will be Dead Europe’s world premiere.
Also in competition is Lore, Cate Shortland’s first film since debut Somersault. Again produced by Liz Watts, the film is an adaptation...
Dead Europe, directed by Tony Krawitz, and Lore directed by Cate Shortland will compete In Competition, which carries a $60,000 prize.
For both films the festival will be their world premiere, along with other local features Not Suitable For Children, Mabo and Being Venice.
Krawitz’s Dead Europe is written by Louise Fox, adapted from a Christos Tsiolkas novel of the same name. It is produced by Liz Watts of Porchlight Films and Oscar-winner Emile Sherman of See Saw Films. The film is about an Australian photographer who visits his ancestral homeland of Greece after his father’s death. It will be Dead Europe’s world premiere.
Also in competition is Lore, Cate Shortland’s first film since debut Somersault. Again produced by Liz Watts, the film is an adaptation...
- 5/9/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Cate Shortland and Tony Krawitz, who are married to each other, both have films among the 12 titles in competition at next month.s Sydney Film Festival.
Lore, a drama set during World War II and based on the novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert, is Shortland.s feature film follow-up to Somersault, while Dead Europe, also set in Europe but a contemporary story adapted from a novel by Christos Tsiolkas, is Krawitz.s first dramatic feature film after his acclaimed short Jewboy and the recent documentary The Tall Man. Tsiolkas also wrote The Slap, on which the acclaimed television series was based.
The other debuts in the competition line-up include Korean filmmaker Yuen Sang-Ho.s The King Of Pigs, Us director Benh Zeitlin.s Beasts of the Southern Wild and Brazilian Kleber Mendonca Filho.s Neighbouring Sounds.
The veterans in the program include Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, with their...
Lore, a drama set during World War II and based on the novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert, is Shortland.s feature film follow-up to Somersault, while Dead Europe, also set in Europe but a contemporary story adapted from a novel by Christos Tsiolkas, is Krawitz.s first dramatic feature film after his acclaimed short Jewboy and the recent documentary The Tall Man. Tsiolkas also wrote The Slap, on which the acclaimed television series was based.
The other debuts in the competition line-up include Korean filmmaker Yuen Sang-Ho.s The King Of Pigs, Us director Benh Zeitlin.s Beasts of the Southern Wild and Brazilian Kleber Mendonca Filho.s Neighbouring Sounds.
The veterans in the program include Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, with their...
- 5/8/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
It's been far too long between drinks for Australian helmer Cate Shortland but her long-awaited sophomore effort, the ambitious German-language post-wwii drama "Lore," is now gearing up for its unveiling with Music Box Films acquiring the North American rights.
An adaptation of Rachel Seiffert's novella "The Dark Room," the film features a cast full of young, relative unknown Euro thesps led by newcomer Saskia Rosendahl who plays the daughter of an SS commander who must lead her four siblings on 900km journey across the war-ravaged country to their grandparents in Hamburg. Things get interesting, though, when they run into a charismatic and intriguing Jewish refugee named Thomas and are forced to trust the one person they've always been taught is the enemy in order to survive. Sounds pretty great.
“I’ve not worked with Music Box before, but we’re keen to be in their catalogue," producer Liz Watts told mUmbrella.
An adaptation of Rachel Seiffert's novella "The Dark Room," the film features a cast full of young, relative unknown Euro thesps led by newcomer Saskia Rosendahl who plays the daughter of an SS commander who must lead her four siblings on 900km journey across the war-ravaged country to their grandparents in Hamburg. Things get interesting, though, when they run into a charismatic and intriguing Jewish refugee named Thomas and are forced to trust the one person they've always been taught is the enemy in order to survive. Sounds pretty great.
“I’ve not worked with Music Box before, but we’re keen to be in their catalogue," producer Liz Watts told mUmbrella.
- 4/4/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
A forthcoming film by an Australian director, set in the aftermath of World War Two Germany, has sold its Us rights.
Lore is directed by Cate Shortland, who previously directed Somersault, and is written by Shortland and Robin Mukherjee.
The film has been picked up by Music Box through French-based international sales agent Memento Films.
Lore is a co-production between Australia, Germany and the UK, produced by the Australian Porchlight Film’s Liz Watts as well as British producer Paul Welsh and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel.
Watts told Encore: “I’ve not worked with Music Box before, but we’re keen to be in their catalogue. They’ve done a lot of foreign films, they did the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films release. They’re very good at the boutique handling of foreign films in the Us.”
The film, an adaptation of Rachel Seiffert’s...
Lore is directed by Cate Shortland, who previously directed Somersault, and is written by Shortland and Robin Mukherjee.
The film has been picked up by Music Box through French-based international sales agent Memento Films.
Lore is a co-production between Australia, Germany and the UK, produced by the Australian Porchlight Film’s Liz Watts as well as British producer Paul Welsh and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel.
Watts told Encore: “I’ve not worked with Music Box before, but we’re keen to be in their catalogue. They’ve done a lot of foreign films, they did the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films release. They’re very good at the boutique handling of foreign films in the Us.”
The film, an adaptation of Rachel Seiffert’s...
- 4/4/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
One supposedly amazing Australian classic I've never seen is Somersault, Cate Shortland's Cannes-baiting debut that helped launch Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington's careers. Shortland's second feature, Lore, looks much more interesting, with a far classier and inspirational female lead to boot. Coming a whole eight years after Shortland's 2004 debut, Lore already has the all the hallmarks of another Berlin/Cannes darling. Based on the Booker Prize nominee novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert and filmed in Germany, Lore is set in 1945, just as the German resistance has broken down. As the Allied forces sweep across the Motherland five children embark on a journey which will challenge every notion we have of family, love and friendship. Some beautiful images from the film have been published across the nets...
- 1/10/2012
- Screen Anarchy
#41. Lore Director: Cate ShortlandWriter(s): Shortland and Robin MukherjeeProducers: Porchlight Films' Liz Watts, Paul Welsh, Rohfilm's Karsten Stoeter & Benny DrechselDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: Based on the book by Rachel Seiffert and written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee, set in Spring of 1945, as the German front collapses, the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 14-year-old Lore is left alone in charge of her four young siblings...(more) Cast: Saskia Rosendahl and Ursina Lardi List Worthy Reasons...: It's been a long, very long eight years since she dropped Somersault upon art-house patrons. Once again employing the unknown young actress in the lead, this multi-territory co-production is a heftier and I don't think will have any resemblance to her 2004 debut (I recall a more gloomy, low budget aesthetic) this could make for a potentially engrossing watch with young leads surviving WW2. Release Date/Status?...
- 1/7/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Here's the first look at the young cast including lead Saskia Rosendahl in Cate Shortland's highly anticipated follow-up to Cannes-hit "Somersault" with a German-language adaptation of Rachel Seiffert's post-wwii drama novella "Lore." The story follows the titular fourteen year old daughter (Rosendahl) of an SS officer who, in the absence of her parents, is forced to guide her brothers and sisters on a 900 km journey across war-ravaged Germany to their grandparent's home. Nele Trebs (”Die Tür”), Kai Malina (”The White Ribbon”) and Ursina Lardi (”Songs Of Love And Hate”) co-star as three of Rosendahl's four siblings. Also featured are…...
- 10/27/2011
- The Playlist
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