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The Lure

Córki Dancingu

2015

Agnieszka Smoczynska

Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis, Zygmunt Malanowicz ...

5.6

988

Musical. Fantasy. Horror. Romance. Comedy 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[An] unbalanced but enticing vampire-mermaid musical fable."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[An] original and ominously enchanting nightmare"
		Russ Fischer The Playlist	"This is a technically confident and often quite accomplished piece of filmmaking, with a rare ability to dance intuitively between linear plotting and phantasmagoric fantasy"
		Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"Enticing, but not entirely satisfying."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"We are not exactly in the present and not precisely in the past, but in a dreamy cinematic space where distinctions of genre and tone are pleasantly (and sometimes shockingly) blurred."
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"[It] seduces with a siren’s call of impressive special effects and a stylishly sleazy vibe (...) But, if ultimately, the film fails to reel in its audience, it is due to puddle-deep characterisation and a plotline which slows to a trickle by the third act"
		Lanre Bakare The Guardian	"[It] seems to have it all – but after a while the wackiness gets weary and even the foam seems thin (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Katie Rife AV Club	"Smoczyńska’s vision for the film is strong, and especially if you put 'The Lure' next to the myriad other variations on the same fairy tale that have been produced over the years, quite refreshing."
		Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"'The Lure' deserves to be seen, though it's sadly not as joyfully deranged as it could be (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

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