Lore (2012)
Directed by Cate Shortland
After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.
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Whether it’s a young woman grappling with the power and consequences of her burgeoning sexuality in Somersault, a police detective traumatised by an unsolved crime in the ABC telemovie The Silence, or a girl who finds the only life she’s ever known crumbling around her in Lore.
Arkapaw gave the distinctive lighting quality and chromatic identity to Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth , Cate Shortland’s Lore , and the first seasons of both True Detective and Top of the Lake .
Australian director Cate Shortland delved deeper into similar territory earlier this year with "Lore."
While films as diverse and powerful as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Lore have offered insightful and moving child's-eye perspectives on the horrors of the second world war, this staid adaptation of Markus Zusak's bestseller comes a cropper as it tries to blend heartwarming moral observation with ill-fitting metaphysical contrivance.
The issue of a German girl who learned the truth about her country’s atrocities in World War II was handled with grace and depth earlier this year in the excellent “Lore.”
Viewers can do better when it comes to child’s-eye perspectives (the recent Lore, about a Hitler Youth left to fend for herself, is breathtakingly bold), and both Zusak and the filmmakers grab at a randomly downbeat conclusion that feels incidental to the evil of the time.
Shortland (“Lore”) competently stages a mix of action, drama and comedy.
Aussie filmmaker Cate Shortland was apparently hand picked by Scarlett herself (who’s listed as one of the executive producers) as she’s a fan of her sophomore indie film Lore , a historical WWII drama.
And thanks to director Cate Shortland’s ( The Secret Life of Us and Lore ) deft vision, it really works.
Part origin story, part swan song, part Marvel-ized riff on “The Americans,” the movie, directed by the Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland (“Lore”), zips us through the brutal education of the young Natasha Romanoff (Ever Anderson) as she’s separated from the only family she’s ever known and transformed into a ruthless Russian spying/fighting/killing machine.
Black Widow director Cate Shortland is an Australian filmmaker best known for Somersault , Lore and Berlin Syndrome , all low-key arthouse movies that would reasonably suggest she might have the nous to bring some depth to the proceedings in a big Hollywood studio tentpole film.
Director Cate Shortland (“Lore,” “Berlin Syndrome”) delivers what’s expected without much in the way of personality or texture.