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Interview: Producer Paul Welsh discusses ‘Lore’, the film’s journey to the screen and director Cate Shortland

Lore is director Cate Shortland’s long-awaited follow-up to Somersault, her acclaimed 2004 drama and feature film debut that was also an international breakthrough for stars Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington. A UK/Australia/Germany co-production, the new film is similarly concerned with a young female protagonist. Following the defeat of the Nazis, teenager Lore must guide herself …

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‘Lore’ is a wrenching tale of innocence lost

Lore Written by Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee Directed by Cate Shortland Germany/Australia, 2012 It’s not new for a storyteller to use war as a coming-of-age metaphor. From Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun  to the Hughes Brothers’ Dead Presidents, fiction is replete with examples of youth shattered and re-formed by the horror of war. The …

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