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Title: The Lure (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Marta Mazurek | ... | Srebrna | |
| Michalina Olszanska | ... | Zlota | |
| Kinga Preis | ... | Wokalistka Krysia | |
| Andrzej Konopka | ... | Perkusista | |
| Jakub Gierszal | ... | Mietek | |
| Zygmunt Malanowicz | ... | Kierownik sali | |
| Magdalena Cielecka | ... | Boskie Futro | |
| Katarzyna Herman | ... | Milicjantka | |
| Marcin Kowalczyk | ... | Tryton / Dedal | |
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Joanna Niemirska | ... | Nerka |
| Katarzyna Sawczuk | ... | Nancy | |
| Roma Gasiorowska | ... | Rakieta | |
| Grzegorz Stelmaszewski | ... | Bramkarz | |
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Janina Wronska | ... | Barmanka Janka |
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Krzysztof Chmielewski | ... | Aparat |
One dark night, at water's edge, a family of musicians encounter aquatic sirens Silver and Golden. After assuring the family that they won't eat them up, the winsome sirens are recruited to join the Figs and Dates band at a neon-lit Warsaw dance club. When Silver becomes romantically entangled with beautiful blonde bassist Mietek, the more cunning Golden, who cannot escape her bloodthirsty nature, worries that her sister's relationship will doom their shared dream of swimming to a new life in America. Written by Anonymous
It was hard picking a rating for the movie because the highs are so high and the lows are so low. One thing is for sure though, The Lure is definitely worth seeing, preferably on the big screen.
The film starts on the banks of a dirty river where a family are singing and drinking. They encounter two young girls in the water, sirens who sing about wanting to be lifted out of the water. The family, who turn out to form a band in a sleazy cabaret, see an opportunity to use the girls for their own purposes and they soon have them performing as a sort of singing/strip tease act the highlight of which is when at the end of their song they dive into the water and their land legs transform bag into their fish tails.
Let's get one thing straight: the script for The Lure isn't big on making sense. Characters drop in and out to explain exposition in a ham-handed fashion, the musical numbers are scattered infrequently throughout the movie and the English lyrics are difficult to parse and seem to have little relation to what's going on on screen.
Yet somehow the movie still contains a lot of charm. First time director Agnieszka Smoczynska seems to be having a ball co-ordinating the cheap glitzy glamour of the musical numbers. Actresses Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska are great in their roles as sister sirens Silver and Gold imbuing them with innocence even when their sleazy guardians use them both sexually and financially.
The movie flits with deeper themes like emotional heartbreak, sisterhood, exploitation, sex, work etc. but the script never gives more than a handful of minutes to each issue so they're never fully explored. That's too bad but at the same time if you turn your brain off and just try to enjoy the movie you're in for a wild ride like nothing you've ever seen before.