There is a real buzz in the industry about director
Cate Shortland's new film
Lore. The flick was premiered at the Sydney Film Festival on Saturday night and it has been picked up by Music Box through French-based international sales agent Memento Films for distribution in the US.
Lore is a joint Australian, German and the UK production by Porchlight Films which had a huge success with the
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
An adaptation by Cate (left) and
Robin Mukherjee of
Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room it's the story of Lore, a young German girl who must get her four younger siblings to her grandmother on the other side of the country after her Nazi parents are arrested by Allied Forces.
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| Lore fans Rachel Ward &Matilda Brown |
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| Saskia Rosendahl |
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| Underbelly Razor star Jeremy Lindsay Taylor & wife Marnie Pleffer at Lore | | | | | |
Lore is beautifully filmed and newcomer
Saskia Rosendahl gives a superb performance as the main character. A name and a movie to watch.
Below: watch Cate talk about Lore on SBS:
This snap below landed in our inbox with no explanation. It appears SBS news reader Le Lin Chin has been floored by Network Ten newsreader Sandra Sully who is brandishing an axe. Chin must have put up a fight as a baseball bat lies nearby. There was a one-line caption with the pic "I finally have Le Lin Chin where I want her". The Shuttle has encountered both ladies around town. We thought they were such nice girls. Left is a snap of Sandra at jeweler Jan Logan's birthday celebration at the Double Bay Intercontinental Hotel a fortnight ago and one of Le who is noted for the fashionable outfits she wears when reading the news.
