The Lure (#896)

This genre-defying horror-musical mash-upthe bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyskafollows 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 Smoczyskas imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersens 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-fueled soundtrack, outrageous song-and-dance numbers, and lavishly grimy sets,The Lureexplores its themes of emerging female sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with savage energy and originality.

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Film Info

• Poland
• 2015
• 92 minutes
• Color
• 2.39:1
• Polish
• Spine #896

Director-Approved Special Edition Features

• High-definition digital master, supervised by director of photography Kuba Kijowski, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New program about the making of the film, featuring interviews with director Agnieszka Smoczyska, actors Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszaska, screenwriter Robert Bolesto, Kijowski, composers Barbara and Zuzanna Wroskie, sound designer Marcin Lenarczyk, and choreographer Kaya Koodziejczyk
• Deleted scenes
• Aria Diva(2007) andViva Maria!(2010), two short films by Smoczyska
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by novelist, playwright, and storyteller Angela Lovell

  New cover by Sam Spratt