Presenting his third feature after last year's acclaimed Wintersleepers, Tom Tykwer cranks up the volume, stiffens the pace, and jettisons us on one of this year's most exhilarating cinematic adventures. A breathtaking race against the clock, Run Lola Run straps Tykwers' playfully hip sensibilities to a fun-filled mix of .. Read more
| Starring | Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Krol |
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| Director | Tom Tykwer |
| Run time | 77 mins |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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In this breathtaking crime drama, director Tom Tykwer keeps his audience on a knife edge as teenager Lola (Franka Potente) tries to raise the money that will save her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) from a homicidal gangster. Tykwer pushes cinema to superhuman limits, presenting three scenarios and conclusions, and utilising a dazzling array of cinematic devices — jump cuts and replays, colour turning to monochrome, action sped to a blur — as Lola takes part in a desperate race against time. This is an awesome achievement from one of Germany's most innovative film-makers.
Exhilarating, speedy thriller which provides three alternative versions of events, depending on tiny incidents which precipitate different consequences; it's a witty demonstration of the vagaries of cause and effect and the unpredictability of life.
great film, I loved it and I can't speak German.
I have seen this movie before and really enjoyed it. I hired it to show one of my friends and was really annoyed when people were talking in English accents. WHY, WHY, WHY? It is a German film and therefore the cast should be speaking German. The terrible dubbing and strange accents do nothing for the film and it just confuses the plots because it is quite obviously not based in an English city. If you watch it get the original version, it's much better!!!
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts get heavy on rogue banks. It’s a lot sexier than Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, especially as Clive’s brand of punishment means jail terms and broken noses, not bail-outs and bonus caps. The International is hardly the first film to make arrogant capitalists the heavies, but the timing could hardly be better. (At the Berlin Film Festival recently Watts joked the global recession was a publicity stunt.) In fact Tom Tykwer’s thriller is inspired... Read more