Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

MisterWhiplash Lore is a drama set during the holocaust, but with a different perspective: instead of it focusing on, for example, Jews in a concentration camp, or on the Nazi officers, this is about the children of an SS officer who, along with their mother, gets interred. So the kids are on their own and have to make their way across a country practically to get to another relative. This is while the nation is under war and everything is devastating. In other words, it's Come and See, though not quite to that extent (but then what could be?)Lore is, for lack of a better word than I can think of so this sums it up, is depressing. You feel drained as the minutes go by and see the devastation go by, though with so little relief that catharsis is lost. It's so unrelentingly bleak, and with such unlikable characters for the most part that it gets exhausting after a while. It sticks to its convictions and it has some harrowing poetry with its shots, but the results just leave you so drained - and not with the sort of catharsis that comes with The Road or Grave with the Fireflies (which this feels like a hybrid of in immediate post WW2 Germany). Or to put it another way, it makes Germany Year Zero look like a Disney cartoon.

jauneoiseau For me this was a moving story which was well told however it didn't condescend to the audience and assumed that we had a basic understanding of WW2 and its implications including some kind of empathy with the characters and how confusing and traumatic it would have been to go through what they did at that time.I appreciated the ambivalent feelings Lore had towards Thomas and really relished in those moments where their eyes met and there was such a mix of tension, resistance and desire. I really wanted there to be something between them and I believe Lore did too in the end but it was all too late. I think Thomas maybe blamed himself a bit for the death of Gunter. I don't know why he walked away from them but then I don't know if the Grandmother would have had him in her home in the end as she seemed like a bit of a hard bitch.Beautiful camera work and the soundtrack was perfect.

javex_2 While I would agree that this movie was beautifully filmed and acted with majestic cinematography, it is not a story that needs to be told. This is a story of, essentially, victimizers being portrayed as victims! After the war, young, overly privileged Nazi children have to trek across Germany for a short time, relying on a young Jewish man for survival, until they reach grandma's house and continue their over privileged and unscathed lives. There are some hardships along the way, don't get me wrong, like being unable to cross borders, only having fruit and bread to eat, and having to sell family heirlooms. There are some touching moments but, for the most part, these children are entirely oblivious, and this movie downplays, the suffering around them and, conversely, makes their moments of difficulty more pronounced. This is most visibly seen by the second eldest daughter who, the day following their arrival at grandma's house, is seen dancing happily with the maid; entirely oblivious to the world around her. The eldest girl, Lore, superficially pieces together the actions of her parents without really understanding the depth and breadth of their doings. Overall, while beautifully made, I found the story to be ridiculous. I do not sympathize or recognize the suffering of these over privileged children who had to forage through a forest for a short time to ultimately arrive at grandma's house; who seems to be untouched by war. One might argue that this it's a different perspective on a genre that's been extensively covered. I argue that this is not a relevant one. I found the handling of the subject matter to be done trivially.Let's do a follow up, children of drug lords suffering because they cannot afford another Maserati and have to drive a Porsche instead; rather than dealing with the violence and devastation their actions have on the people and communities around them.

Anders Klingsheim "The Bridge", "the Downfall" and "A woman in Berlin" can be put on the same line as this. The fall of the Third-Reich.Here we follow Lore, a daughter of an high ranking Officer in the German army. It starts of still in the Third-Reich. As the family runs from the allied, they are confronted by challenges. As they hear their leader die, the world around them crumbles.Its really a sad story. The children really don't know what just happened. As any other movie. 6 stars. But i find the view of the German suffering interesting. So i give 10 stars, because this one is underrated by critics.