| Other author/creator | Smoczyńska, Agnieszka film director. |
| Other author/creator | Bolesto, Robert, screenwriter. |
| Other author/creator | Niderhaus, Włodzimierz film producer. |
| Other author/creator | Preis, Kinga actor. |
| Other author/creator | Mazurek, Marta, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Olszanska, Michalina, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych w Warszawie, production company. |
| Other author/creator | Platige Image S.A. production company. |
| Other author/creator | Telewizja Polska production company. |
| Other author/creator | Criterion Collection (Firm) publisher. |
| Variant title |
Title on container: Lure |
| Physical medium | 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical medium | stamping |
| Series |
The Criterion Collection, 896
Criterion collection ; 896. ^A458475
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| 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). |
| General note | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015. |
| General note | 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. |
| Credits | Director of photography, Kuba Kijowski ; music and lyrics, Barbara Wrońska, Zuzanna Wrońska ; editor, Jarosław Kamińska. |
| Cast |
Kinga Preis, Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Jakub Gierszał, Andrzej Konopka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Marcin Kowalczyk. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Technical details | DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround. |
| Language | In Polish, with optional subtitles in English. |
| Genre/form | Horror films. |
| Genre/form | Fiction films. |
| Genre/form | Feature films. |
| Genre/form | Feature films Poland. |
| Genre/form | Foreign language films Polish. |
| ISBN | 9781681433677 |
| ISBN | 1681433672 |
| UPC |
715515205115 |
| Publisher number | CC2817DDVD The Criterion Collection |
