http://bmamag.com/articles/free-stuff/20120911-five-double-passes-cate-shortlands-some/FIVE DOUBLE PASSES TO CATE SHORTLAND’S (SOMERSAULT) NEW FILM ‘LORE’
Australian director Cate Shortland’s prodigious talent, so clearly evident in her earlier film Somersault, is fully realised in her magnificent new film, Lore, set in the dying days of World War II in Nazi Germany and based on the book The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert. The film was in competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, won the Audience Award at the recent Locarno Film Festival and has been selected for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festivals.
Lore is set in Germany the spring of Spring 1945. As the German resistance collapses and Allied forces sweep across the Motherland, five children embark on a journey which will challenge every notion we have of family, love and friendship. With their Nazi father and mother imprisoned by American and Russian forces, abandoned to an uncertain fate, Lore takes charge of her younger brothers and sister, guiding them from Bavaria across a devastated country, towards the safety of their grandmother’s house 900km away to the north. On the road, the children struggle to survive the punishing post-war conditions as Lore begins to understand the reality and consequences of her Nazi parent’s actions, their support of Hitler and his disastrous war, their direct knowledge and support of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
We have five double passes to a screening of Lore at Greater Union Manuka on Sunday September 16, 3pm, where Cate Shortland will speak about the film. If you’d like to go, email
allan@bmamag.com and name the Canberra location featured in Cate Shortland’s first film.
Email the editor with your name, phone number and address to see if you can pick up yourself a one of these.
