What would you do if your parents were Nazis? Based on the second novella of Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room, Lore tells the story of a Nazi officer’s children travelling together after the Allied victory. It’s a harrowing journey, of course, given the end of the war. But writer-director Cate Shortland takes that journey even further, as she pushes the children through terrible situations in such stunning naturalistic shots. The contrast makes it seem that while everything has gone right for the world, it’s only inevitable to dish out societal shunning towards them, but Shortland still manages a tightrope balance between empathizing with the kids, while still acknowledging the natural weight of the guilt, the shame of having benefitted, even if not complicit, in one of the world’s worst atrocities ever committed. It’s because of this that Lore is such an intriguing, complex, but necessary movie to watch.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Actor: Antonia Holfelder, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Eva-Maria Hagen, Franziska Traub, Friederike Frerichs, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Hendrik Arnst, Jan Peter Heyne, Kai-Peter Malina, Katharina Spiering, Katrin Pollitt, Lucas Reiber, Nele Trebs, Philip Wiegratz, Pit Bukowski, Saskia Rosendahl, Sven Pippig, Ursina Lardi, Wanda Perdelwitz
Director: Cate Shortland
Rating: NR
