The Lure

2015 [POLISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Musical / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 14 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 10961 11K

sisters mermaid musical woman director 1980s warsaw, poland

Plot summary

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

Director

Agnieszka Smoczynska Photo
Agnieszka Smoczynska

Top cast

Roma Gasiorowska Photo
Roma Gasiorowska as Rakieta
Michalina Olszanska Photo
Michalina Olszanska as Zlota
Magdalena Cielecka Photo
Magdalena Cielecka as Boskie Futro
Kinga Preis Photo
Kinga Preis as Wokalistka Krysia
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
794.43 MB
1280*534
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles pl  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 6
1.49 GB
1920*800
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles pl  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ReganRebecca 7 / 10

A deranged musical that's worth giving a shot

It was hard picking a rating for the movie because the highs are so high and the lows are so low. One thing is for sure though, The Lure is definitely worth seeing, preferably on the big screen.The film starts on the banks of a dirty river where a family are singing and drinking. They encounter two young girls in the water, sirens who sing about wanting to be lifted out of the water. The family, who turn out to form a band in a sleazy cabaret, see an opportunity to use the girls for their own purposes and they soon have them performing as a sort of singing/strip tease act the highlight of which is when at the end of their song they dive into the water and their land legs transform bag into their fish tails. Let's get one thing straight: the script for The Lure isn't big on making sense. Characters drop in and out to explain exposition in a ham-handed fashion, the musical numbers are scattered infrequently throughout the movie and the English lyrics are difficult to parse and seem to have little relation to what's going on on screen.Yet somehow the movie still contains a lot of charm. First time director Agnieszka Smoczynska seems to be having a ball co-ordinating the cheap glitzy glamour of the musical numbers. Actresses Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska are great in their roles as sister sirens Silver and Gold imbuing them with innocence even when their sleazy guardians use them both sexually and financially. The movie flits with deeper themes like emotional heartbreak, sisterhood, exploitation, sex, work etc. but the script never gives more than a handful of minutes to each issue so they're never fully explored. That's too bad but at the same time if you turn your brain off and just try to enjoy the movie you're in for a wild ride like nothing you've ever seen before.
Reviewed by cliffordo-33234 6 / 10

Hard to Label

Foreign films can be so refreshing. So let's see. It's about mermaids. Fantasy. That eat people. Horror. Who fall in love. Love story. And there's lots of singing and dancing. Musical. The songs are decent, but the lyrics sound like they were written by a crack addict. Could it really have lost that much in the translation? Oh, its Polish, so its subtitled. The acting and directing are generally well done. However, it feels like they took it out of the oven and released it before the film was done. So sometimes, it is touching and beautiful, with a classy European style, and other times, it is stupid beyond words. It is a take-off on the myth about the mermaid who tries to be a human girl when she falls in love. And that is all about sacrifice on the one hand, and being true to our nature on the other. A very unusual movie, especially for a director's debut film.
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