The lure Córki dancingu

DVD - 2017

Follow 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.

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Subjects
Genres
Horror films
Feature films
Comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvingrton, New York] : The Criterion Collection [2017]
Language
Polish
English
Corporate Authors
Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych w Warszawie, Platige Image S.A, Telewizja Polska
Corporate Authors
Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych w Warszawie (production company), Platige Image S.A, Telewizja Polska
Other Authors
Agnieszka Smoczyńska (film director), Robert Bolesto (screenwriter), Włodzimierz Niderhaus (film producer), Kinga Preis (actor), Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
Wide screen (2.39:1).
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.
Special features: Making of the film, featuring interviews; deleted scenes; Aria divia (2007) and Viva Maria!(2010), two short films directed by Smoczyńska; New English subtitle translation; Plus: an essay by writer Angela Lovell.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Kuba Kijowski ; music and lyrics, Barbara Wrońska, Zuzanna Wrońska ; editor, Jarosław Kamiński ; choreography, Kaya Kolodziejczyk, Jaroslaw Staniek
ISBN
9781681433677
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Mermaid sisters Golden and Silver are hunting human prey when they encounter a rock band partying on a desolate Polish shore. Quickly developing mutual attraction, the sisters accompany their new friends to the seedy nightclub where the band regularly performs. Intrigued by the possibilities, the venue owner signs the fantastic siblings to create performances with the musicians, believing that audiences will become entranced by the sirenlike call of their voices in harmony. These bold new currents of opportunity soon become turbulent: Golden gives in to her natural impulses to feast on human hearts while navigating temptation in an offer to sing with another landlocked briny denizen's hard rock act, and Silver contemplates surgery to remove her tail to make herself acceptable to a blond hunk who rejects her half-aquatic heritage. VERDICT The Lure sets sail for delightfully unique waters, melding ancient legend, magical realism, and the unfettered emotionality of the musical format to concoct a fish tale both wondrous and eerie that superbly blends high drama with the otherworldly mystery of the fantastic.-Douglas Rednour, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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