Directed by:
Agnieszka SmoczyńskaScreenplay:
Robert BolestoCinematography:
Jakub KijowskiComposer:
Barbara WrońskaCast:
Kinga Preis, Michalina Olszańska, Marta Mazurek, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Konopka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Marcin Kowalczyk, Magdalena Cielecka (more)VOD (1)
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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-fuelled 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. (Criterion)
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The Lure
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Lakeshore Records
Year: 2017
Country: USA
Format: digital
Length: 50:21
1. | "Mermaid's Calling #1" - Marta Mazurek, Barbara Wronska & Michalina Olszanska | 00:54 | |
2. | "You Were The Beat Of My Heart" - Marta Mazurek, Kinga Preis & Michalina Olszanska | 02:27 | |
3. | "Give Me This Night" - Barbara Wronska & Zuzanna Wronska | 03:37 | |
4. | "The Housefly 3" - Various artists | 01:14 | |
5. | "Take Me In Your Care" - Marta Mazurek & Jakub Gierszal | 01:54 | |
6. | "Banana Song" - Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka & Jakub Gierszal | 01:36 | |
7. | "The Tavern" - Marcin Macuk & Barbara Wronska | 01:53 | |
8. | "Biting The German To Death" - Marcin Macuk & Barbara Wronska | 01:44 | |
9. | "Abracadabra" - Marta Mazurek & Michalina Olszanska | 03:19 | |
10. | "I Feel Love" - Kinga Preis | 03:46 | |
11. | "Chronos" - Lukasz Drapala | 01:32 | |
12. | "Colors" - The Abstinents | 01:40 | |
13. | "Mermaid's Calling #2" - Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska & Barbara Wronska | 00:49 | |
14. | "The Bed" - Marta Mazurek & Michalina Olszanska | 03:21 | |
15. | "The Housefly 1" - Michalina Olszanska | 02:01 | |
16. | "The Loop" - Various artists | 04:08 | |
17. | "The Carpet" - Barbara Wronska | 01:07 | |
18. | "Policewoman" - Katarzyna Herman & Michalina Olszanska | 03:09 | |
19. | "Beata From The Albatros" - Jakub Gierszal | 01:17 | |
20. | "Before The Finale" - Barbara Wronska | 01:16 | |
21. | "I Came To The City" - Kinga Preis, Marta Mazurek & Michalina Olszanska | 02:47 | |
22. | "SZ" - Barbara Wronska | 03:23 | |
23. | "Finale" - Marcin Macuk & Barbara Wronska | 01:27 |