Cover image for The Lure [DVD video]
Title:
The Lure [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

©2017
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
ISBN:
9781681433677
Abstract:
Follow 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.
General Note:
Wide screen (2.39:1).

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.

Includes 1 booklet.

Special features: Making of the film, featuring interviews; deleted scenes; Aria divia (2007) and Viva Maria! (2010), two short films directed by Smoczyńska; New English subtitle translation; Plus: an essay by writer Angela Lovell.
Performers:
Kinga Preis, Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Jakub Gierszał, Andrzej Konopka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Marcin Kowalczyk.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Geographic Term:
Language:
Polish
Additional Language:
In Polish, with optional subtitles in English.
Audience:
Not rated.
Holds: