Synopsis
The Lure (Córki dancingu, 2015) is a Polish horror-musical you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska. Mermaids, disco lights, and raw violence share the screen in a Warsaw nightclub set sometime in the late 1980s.
Sisters Silver and Gold crawl out of the water and land jobs as cabaret singers. Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszańska play them with an unnerving mix of innocence and menace. When one of them falls for the club's bass guitarist, played by Jakub Gierszał, the old warning rings true — a mermaid who loves a human will pay with her life. Kinga Preis is the club owner who treats them as novelties, blind to what they actually are.
Smoczyńska takes the Hans Christian Andersen source and strips it of every comfort: no prince, no redemption, just desire and a thumping synth score. The film picked up a Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2015. Stream The Lure online on iFILM — it is nothing like the fairy tale you remember.
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