| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 min.) : flv file, sound |
| Summary |
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-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 |
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Title from title frames |
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Film |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2015 |
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Based on The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Kuba Kijowski ; music and lyrics, Ballady i Romanse (Barbara Wrońska, Zuzanna Wrońska), arranged by Marcin Macuk, Barbara Wrońska ; editor, Jarosław Kamiński |
| Cast |
Kinga Preis, Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszańska, Jakub Gierszał, Andrzej Konopka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Marcin Kowalczyk, Magdalena Cielecka, Katarzyna Herman, Joanna Niemirska, Katarzyna Sawczuk, Roma Gąsiorowska, Grzegorz Stelmaszewski, Janina Wrońska, Krzysztof Chmielewski, Piotr Skiba, Marta Malikowska, Zbigniew Buczkowski, Iwona Bielska, Dariusz Wnuk, Józef Mika |
| Event |
This version produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) |
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In Polish with English subtitles |
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Nominated for the World Cinema - Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival |
| Subject |
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 -- Film adaptations
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Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. |
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Mermaids -- Drama
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Sirens (Mythology) -- Drama
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Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Drama
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Sisters -- Drama
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Singers -- Drama
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Women dancers -- Poland -- Drama
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Sirens (Mythology)
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Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
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Mermaids.
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Singers.
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Sisters.
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Women dancers.
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Poland -- Drama
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Warsaw (Poland) -- Drama
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Poland -- Warsaw.
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Poland.
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Internet videos.
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Fiction films.
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Film adaptations.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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Musical films.
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Horror films.
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Coming-of-age films.
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Horror films.
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Musical films.
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Coming-of-age films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Films d'horreur.
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Films musicaux.
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Films de passage à l'âge adulte.
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Films de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Smoczyńska, Agnieszka, film director.
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Bolesto, Robert, 1977- screenwriter.
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Niderhaus, Włodzimierz, film producer.
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Preis, Kinga, actor.
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Mazurek, Marta, 1990- actor.
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Olszanska, Michalina, 1992- actor.
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Gierszal, Jakub, 1988- actor.
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Konopka, Andrzej, 1969- actor.
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Malanowicz, Zygmunt, 1938- actor.
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Kowalczyk, Marcin, 1987- actor.
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Cielecka, Magdalena, actor.
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Herman, Katarzyna, 1971- actor.
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Gąsiorowska, Roma, 1981- actor.
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Buczkowski, Zbigniew, 1951- actor.
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Kijowski, Kuba, 1979- director of photography.
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Kamiński, Jarosław, 1960- editor of moving image work.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Lille havfrue.
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Ballady i Romanse (Musical group), composer (expression)
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Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, production company.
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Platige Image S.A., production company.
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Telewizja Polska, production company.
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Janus Films.
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