In mermaid tales — the old ones, before Disney — hybrid fish-women use their glorious voices to lure men into the depths. In some regions, mermaids are harbingers of doom; in others, they are vengeful ...

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Lure is a cautionary tale of sisterhood, sexuality, and the sometimes self-destructive things people do for love. The film, which won the award for best debut at the Gdynia ...

Two flesh-eating mermaid sisters experience the pleasures and possibilities of life on land in a fantasy version of 1980s Warsaw in “The Lure,” Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s exhilaratingly ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

Agnieszka, though this is your first feature film, one of your short films, Aria Diva, also dealt with the power of musical performance. Is this a theme you’re consciously pursuing in your career? A: ...