The Glasgow Film Festival kicks off today - go see this:
Adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s 2001 novel The Dark Room, Lore
presents the dissolution of the Third Reich through the eyes of a
teenage girl raised in its midst, her family’s pro-Nazi world view
capsized by defeat. The titular protagonist (impressively played by
Saskia Rosendahl in her screen debut) is a complex creation – too young
to share her parents’ complicity, but having assimilated their
anti-Semitic values nonetheless. This mix of innocence and ignominy
creates a keen dramatic tension, keeping audience sympathies tentative
and in flux.
Tasked with looking after her younger siblings following her parents’
arrest, the plot follows Lore’s journey through occupied Germany – a
tumult of grief, guilt and denial pervaded by terrible suffering. With
careful poetry, director and co-writer Cate Shortland builds an
immersive narrative from vivid, sensory details, lingering on the crunch
of eggshells underfoot or the revulsive intimacy of ants crawling on
corpses. The result is a stimulating portrayal of an under-examined
aspect of Nazism’s terrible legacy.
15 Feb – GFT 1 @ 18.00
16 Feb – Cineworld 18 @ 19.00
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