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Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
The Lure
2015 ‘Córki dancingu’ Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
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Marta Mazurek Michalina Olszańska Kinga Preis Andrzej Konopka Jakub Gierszał Zygmunt Malanowicz Magdalena Cielecka Katarzyna Herman Marcin Kowalczyk Joanna Niemirska Katarzyna Sawczuk Roma Gąsiorowska Grzegorz Stelmaszewski Janina Wronska Krzysztof Chmielewski Piotr Skiba Marta Malikowska Zbigniew Buczkowski Iwona Bielska Dariusz Wnuk Józef Mika Maciej Lubienski Paulina Gałązka Justyna Swierczynska Małgorzata Sobieszczańska
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Alternative Titles
Sirenengesang, Zavođenje, The Lure - Córki dancingu
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the two mermaids: hissing and singing and chewing on human body parts
me with my camera out: you're doing amazing sweeties -
a gorgeously shot Polish goth musical about homicidal teen mermaids hired to sing at a nightclub. obviously essential.
fun fact: i watched this on ambien and spent most of the following day thinking that it was a dream i had. only after someone mentioned that they were going to a press screening of "the mermaid movie" did it click for me like at the end of The Usual Suspects. (i watched it again)
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Eh, no big deal, just your run-of-the-mill adults-only Polish mermaid sex musical.
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Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom?
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Imagine if Gaspar Noé and (the late) Andrzej Zulawski collaborated on a remake of “The Little Mermaid” and you’ll have a faint idea of what to expect from Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “The Lure,” a wonderfully demented new musical that bridges the gap between Hans Christian Andersen and Nine Inch Nails.
The fun begins in Communist-era Poland, where a mopey young musician named Mietek (Jakub Gierszal) stands by the waters of Warsaw and strums a folksy lament. If Mietek doesn’t seem all that surprised when two comely sea sirens pop their heads out of the surf and sing a reply (promising not to eat him, natch), perhaps that’s because he’s a little tipsy — given the strange energy that pumps through Smoczynska’s film from start to finish, it won’t be long before you know just how he feels.
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me: loves men getting eaten up, lesbianism, mermaids and iconic songs
The Lure (2015):
me: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTT -
mermaids: *eat men*
me: there is no way this could be more specifically tailored to my tastes if it tried
mermaids: *start to sing*
me: oh my god -
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it's weird that so many people called this goth, it came off as bright disco/pop/eurotrash horror, do i not understand what goth is? is it different now? this is too pretty and turquoise to be goth? just because a mermaid eats people doesn't make the whole thing goth? right? anyway aside from a chunk in the middle that i did not care for at all i liked this a lot, the polish song lyrics are beautiful but translate to simplistic and not very poetic english and that weirdly kept me from feeling like this had some way complicated metaphors underneath the obvious ones that i was missing. there's...a lot going on but it's basically about how men are dumb and want to have sex with sexy fish but are too uptight to admit it to themselves so they take out their internal disgust on the sexy fish. just go for it bro!