Review of Lore (2012) by Jack G — 28 Apr 2013

So depressing, so unrelentingly bleak, and with such unlikable characters for the most part that it gets exhausting after a while. It sticks to its convictions and it has some harrowing poetry with its shots, but the results just leave you so drained - and not with the sort of catharsis that comes with The Road or Grave with the Fireflies (which this feels like a hybrid of in immediate post WW2 Germany).

Or to put it another way, it makes Germany Year Zero look like a Disney cartoon.