Film Podcast #23: Lore and Mea Maxima Culpa

Film Podcast #23: Lore and Mea Maxima Culpa by The Double Negative on Mixcloud

DW Mault reviews Second World War thriller Lore (2012) and documentary on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012).

Set in Germany at the end of WWII, this film asks questions about how the supporters of Nazi rule coped in a new world where they became the persecuted. Tracking the journey of Lore and her family as their life of privilege falls apart, the truth of her parents actions and beliefs is exposed. Lore is helped to come to terms with reality by a chance encounter with a person she has always been taught to hate; persecuted, now liberated, Jew, Thomas.

The official entry of Australia to the Best Foreign Language Film of the 85th Academy Awards 2013, using an entirely German cast, this is only Australian director Cate Shortland’s second feature film.

In Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney explores the shocking issue of paedophilia and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. In the first known case of public protest, four deaf men set out to expose the priest who abused them, revealing a cover-up that spirals through Wisconsin, USA, Ireland’s churches, and to the highest offices in the Vatican, Rome. Described as “essential, uncomfortable viewing” by Olly Richards for Empire Magazine.

Hosted by director and cineaste DW Mault with special guest, Editor of The Double Negative, Mike Pinnington.

Watch trailers for Lore and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God   

Lore screens at FACT Liverpool now until 7 March