LORE: German language post-Holocaust drama by Australian director Cate Shortland; Australia's Official Selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film @ Berkeley 3/1 March 1, 2013

LORE is the second film from Australian director Cate Shortland (Somersault), a riveting and complex look into a rarely seen legacy of the Holocaust. Left to fend for herself when her SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are captured by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, Lore, a fourteen-year-old German girl (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl,) must lead her four siblings on a harrowing journey across a devastated country. When she meets the charismatic and mysterious young refugee Thomas, (Kai Malina, The White Ribbon,) Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of hatred and desire as she must put her trust in the very person she was always taught to hate in order to survive.

Australian director Cate Shortland’s debut film, Somersault, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim and went on to win 13 Australian Film Institute Awards (Australian Oscars), including Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. A lyrical depiction of a young girl’s sexual awakening, it was also the breakthrough debut for star Abbie Cornish.

Screenwriters Shortland and Robin Mukherjee adapted Rachel Seiffert’s novel The Dark Room (Booker Prize finalist), with cinematographer Adam Arkapaw (Animal Kingdom, Snowtown)’s lyrical compositions capturing the bleak and lush landscapes of the countryside.

Australia's Official Selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Audience Award, 2012 Locarno Film Festival
Winner: Golden Starfish Narrative Feature Award, 2012 Hamptons Film Festival
Winner: Kodak Award for Cinematography, 2012 Hamptons Film Festival
Official Selection: 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival
Official Selection: 2012 Toronto International Film Festival-Special Presentations
Official Selection: 2012 Sydney Film Festival

“Shot entirely in Europe, with richly sensual lensing by talented Australian cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, this measured,
subtly complex film….allow(s) for an ambiguous reading of evil…Shortland unearthed a new talent in Abbie Cornish with Somersault and this new film should be a career-launcher for Rosendahl.” - Megan Lehman, Hollywood Reporter

“In a sense Lore is The White Ribbon’s sequel….Shortland and Haneke complement one another on yet more than the aesthetic level…. If seen as one body of work, they form a psychological profile, an anthology of a whole generation’s state of mind and the interpersonal as well as historical process that led to fascism.” - Beatrice Behn, Film Society of Lincoln Center blog

Official Website: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/lore-movies-53.php
Trailer:

The film’s running time is 90 minutes; it is not rated. In German; full subtitled in English.

Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas, 2230 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley (510) 644-2992
Show times (valid 3/1-7): Daily at 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40
Tickets are $10.50 for general admission and $8.00 for seniors, students, and children.
Tickets are available online: https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/ticketing.aspx?theatreid=200 and at the theatre box office.
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