Rent The Lure (2015)
3.2 of 5 from 148 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up - the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyriska - follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczyriska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", in which the girls' bond is tested and their survival threatened after one sister falls for a human. A coming-of-age fairy tale with a catchy synth-fueled soundtrack, outrageous song-and-dance numbers, and lavishly grimy sets, The Lure explores its themes of emerging female sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with savage energy and originality. - Actors:
- Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka, Jakub Gierszal, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Magdalena Cielecka, Katarzyna Herman, Marcin Kowalczyk, Joanna Niemirska, Katarzyna Sawczuk, Roma Gasiorowska, Grzegorz Stelmaszewski, Janina Wronska, Krzysztof Chmielewski, Piotr Skiba, Marta Malikowska, Zbigniew Buczkowski, Iwona Bielska, Dariusz Wnuk
- Directors:
- Agnieszka Smoczynska
- Producers:
- Wlodzimierz Niderhaus
- Writers:
- Robert Bolesto
- Aka:
- Córki dancingu
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Horror, Music & Musicals
- Collections:
- New waves of Polish Cinema, What to watch by country
- Countries:
- Poland
- Awards:
2016 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Unique Vision and Design Award
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/10/2017
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- Polish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New program about the making of the film, featuring interviews with director Agnieszka Smoczyriska, actors Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszariska, screenwriter Robert Bolesto, Kijowski, composers Barbara and Zuzanna Wroriskie, sound designer Marcin Lenarczyk, and choreographer Kaya Kotodziejczyk
- Deleted scenes
- Aria Diva (2007) and Viva Maria! (2010), two short films by Smoczyriska
- Trailer
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Reviews (2) of The Lure
Funky Fish - The Lure review by KC
A Polish mermaid musical that knocks the socks off La La Land, excellent performances and great music blend together to create a film which is really original and totally revitalizes the Little Mermaid story, turning it into something edgy and exhilarating A real little gem of a film..
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Córki dancingu ... - The Lure review by NP
This plays as a Polish fusion of David Lynch and Guillermo del Toro; it starts weird and stays there. The ending succeeds in being quite touching despite the bizarre run of events leading up to it, but the one-note eccentricities and the endless musical pieces soon become a series of more of the same unorthodox story-telling – although the soundtrack is very good.
Robert Bolesto’s plot is adult fairy-tale and wafer-thin, but as is the way with art films of this nature, the visuals and the direction are key; Agnieszka Smoczynska ensures the production looks lavish and epic throughout. Set in the 1980’s, it’s a real case of style over content – events rarely draw you in, but are pleasing on a superficial scale. My score is 6 out of 10.
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