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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Further note on the retro style of The Lure

An additional note on the extremely odd Polish film The Lure, probably (certainly) the only mermaid-zombie musical: Having watched a brief documentary on the making of the film, I'm glad to note that it is in fact a period piece, set in the mid 1980s, so the retro feeling of the film does not reflect contemporary styles and trends in Polish culture. The filmmakers started off with the goal of making a film about the mermaid myth, but updated with a horror/zombie touch and with the mermaids made to look grotesque rather than alluring; when they found that a well-known Warsaw nightclub, now defunct, was available as a location they built the look of the film around that club: very disco, with revolving lights and glitter all around, and then the musical score seemed to follow that style lead, with a not of #s in the style of 80s music videos as well as a few big staged traditional musical #s, for which the director credited the influence of Fosse. I'm not sure if the film rose to the level of fulfilling its vast ambitions or whether the filmmakers even recognize that many people will find the film comic, even ludicrous, but my guess is that they're open to all reactions: It's a copious film and one of a kind.

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