Everywhere in the world, people tend to adopt the attitudes and
belief systems of their parents, and this is no less true when those
attitudes are repugnant. Lore (short for Hannelore) is the daughter of
Nazis; as the film begins, the family is fleeing
in the face of the German defeat. Barely into her teens, she winds up leading her four younger siblings on a trek across a land divided among the Allies. But her longer journey involves re-evaluationg her acceptance of her parents’ ideology.
Director Cate Shortland brings the same poetic approach to her filmmaking as in her film Somersault (set her native Australia). This means lots of gauzy close-ups and quiet passages. This is not dull, but in this case I found it emotionally distancing.
viewed 3/20/13 7:10 pm at Ritz Bourse
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