Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.
With a child's perspective on war, "Lore" deserves comparisons with "Empire of the Sun" and "Hope and Glory," and with a feisty female protagonist it stands virtually alone.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
14 Mar 2013
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It's a harrowing walk through the heart of darkness.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
14 Mar 2013
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The sins of the Fatherland send a German teenage girl and her Nazi-connected family on the run in Australian director Cate Shortland's vividly rendered and sensual drama Lore.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
30 May 2013
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The young principals here, Malina and especially Rosendahl, are superb at conveying that premature hardening, their elastic minds pummelled by inelastic forces.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
31 May 2013
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Lore, from Australian director Cate Shortland, proceeds like a long-ago fairy tale, dark-hued, grounded in real-life 20th-century horrors.