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Run Lola Run
1998
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 |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
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Run Lola Run
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 romance, thrills, and action as his tireless heroine pounds the pavement and racks her brain to save her lover from danger. Manni and Lola are twenty-something Berliners, way past cool and desperately in love. When Manni, a local criminal's errand boy, loses twenty thousand Marks, he has twenty minutes to find the money or face retaliation. Not the brightest bulb, Manni turns to the quick-witted, resourceful Lola to devise a plan to save his hide. And so she does, and off she sprints, running for Manni's life, for her love, and to find money somewhere, somehow. Dangling three "what if" variations on Lola's mission to save her mate, Run Lola Run propels us toward each outcome with a delicious peppering of surprises, quirks, and twists. A sure-fire hit with audiences, Run Lola Run brings to the screen two actors of immeasurable charisma: Franka Potente as the heroic, flame-haired Lola, and Moritz Bleibtreu as her doltish but devoted lover. Scoring his delirious staccato mix of animation, still photographs, and live action to a pounding techno beat, Tykwer reveals himself a virtuoso of the medium and, at the same time, a passionate believer in destiny and the transcendent power of love.
| Starring | Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Krol, Nina Petri, Ludger Pistor, Armin Rohde, Sebastian Schipper, Suzanne Von Borsody |
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| Director | Tom Tykwer |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 17 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 17 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: German Blu-ray: German |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2000 Blu-ray: 18 Feb 2008 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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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.
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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.
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37 out of 41 people found this review helpful
Lola
great film, I loved it and I can't speak German.
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Run, run for your life
I have never known the provenance of the expression 'run for your life'. I doubt there are many people who have really meant it when they've said it. But the words take on a very real significance in the context of this movie. "Run Lola Run" follows a young, bright red-head woman who sprints through the streets of Berlin in a frenzied attempt to save her boyfriend's life. She has 20 minutes to do so. There is something of a psychedelic tinge to the film which (although the director might want to kill me for saying so) could be Germany's answer to "Sliding Doors". I wouldn't advise anyone to run to the internet to hire the movie, but it nicely fills about 80 minutes of a 72 x 20 minute day. Minutes matter very much in this film. My only piece of advise would be - make sure you're not hung over.
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