Directed by:
Agnieszka SmoczyńskaScreenplay:
Robert BolestoCinematography:
Jakub KijowskiComposer:
Barbara WrońskaCast:
Kinga Preis, Michalina Olszańska, Marta Mazurek, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Konopka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Marcin Kowalczyk, Magdalena Cielecka (more)VOD (1)
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This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up - the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska - 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 Smoczynska'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-fuelled 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. (Criterion)
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Kinga Preis
Poland
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Michalina Olszańska
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Marta Mazurek
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Jakub Gierszal
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Najlepszy (2017)
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Andrzej Konopka
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Zygmunt Malanowicz
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Best movies:
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Marcin Kowalczyk
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Magdalena Cielecka
Poland
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Katarzyna Herman
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Dziewczyny z Dubaju (2021)
Roma Gasiorowska
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Best movies:
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Oda do radości (2005)
Letters to Santa (2011)
Grzegorz Stelmaszewski
Poland
Best movies:
Edi (2002)
Weekend (2010)
Secret Wars (2014)
Zbigniew Buczkowski
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Best movies:
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Day of the Wacko (2002)
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Iwona Bielska
Poland
Best movies:
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The Wedding (2004)
The Mighty Angel (2014)
Ivan Krivoruchko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
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The Lure (2015)
Krzysztof Tyszko
Best movies:
The Lure (2015)
Stanisław Łowicki
Best movies:
The Lure (2015)
Neighborhooders (2014)
Janina Wrońska
Best movies:
The Lure (2015)
Krzysztof Chmielewski
Best movies:
The Lure (2015)