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Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
1998 Plot synopsis Punkette Lola’s lunk-headed boyfriend Manny calls her from a pay phone, frantically begging her to bail him out of a seriously bad situation in which he’s just lost the 100000 DM that he’s supposed to deliver to his gangster boss. Now he’s got just 20 minutes to get that money back, or he’s a dead man for sure. Lola tells him to calm down and stay put; she’ll take care of it and meet him – money somehow in hand – in 20 minutes sharp. What follows are three versions of what happens during that 20 minutes, each with small but significant variations on when, from where and how Lola finally arrives to meet Manny, and all connected by the virtually non-stop motion of Lola racing desperately all over town in search of a viable solution.Review Franka Potente’s Lola is a fire-engine-red-headed kinetic force of pure energy and spunk, and one of the coolest female characters to grace the screen in quite awhile. Perhaps it’s a sad comment on the continuing prevalence of sexism in movies, but it’s incredibly refreshing to see an action movie where the woman is the smart, strong, capable one rescuing her man from his own foolish mistakes. Twyker’s direction oozes hyper-hipness as well, indulging in a rhythmic and constant barrage of contrasting media [35mm, video, and animation all play key roles], abrupt jump cuts, and funky split screen sequences, all of which combine to insure that the viewer will never, throughout the 80-some minute length of the movie, feel the least bit bored. Run Lola Run will convince even the most die-hard anti-subtitle movie-watcher that the words "foreign film" don’t automatically equal two hours of tedious reading and pretentious intellectualism.o
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