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Run Lola Run (1999)
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Reviews Counted:79
Fresh:73
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: More fun than a barrel of Jean-Paul Sartre, pic's energy riffs on an engaging love story and really human performances while offering a series of what-ifs and a blood-stirring soundtrack.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Set against the gritty urban scenescape of Berlin and a pounding techno soundtrack, RUN LOLA RUN is a frenetic, inventive existential thriller that explores the life-altering impact of seemingly... Set against the gritty urban scenescape of Berlin and a pounding techno soundtrack, RUN LOLA RUN is a frenetic, inventive existential thriller that explores the life-altering impact of seemingly inconsequential actions. Beautiful, hip, and young, poor Lola has but 20 minutes to locate a missing bag containing 100,000 Deutsche marks or come up with the money some other way--if she can't, gangsters are going to kill her boyfriend. A pulse-raising race against time, the film employs a startling array of innovative techniques to present three separate scenarios, all departing from a single split-second decision Lola makes. Franka Potente, who also sings on the soundtrack, is mesmerizing as Lola. Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival; Best Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director at the German Film Awards; 1998 Bambi Award; and the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film at the Seattle International Film Festival. [More]
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol, Ludger Pistor, Suzanne Von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper
Director: Tom Tykwer
Director: Tom Tykwer
Screenwriter: Tom Tykwer
Producer: Stephan Arndt
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Reviews for Run Lola Run
...a thrilling adventure mixing animation and live action against a propulsive techno soundtrack.
Tom Twyker's frenzied directing is never dull, and casting his girlfriend [Franka] Potente in the role was a smart choice.
It's never, ever boring. And, importantly, it knows exactly when to quit.
What’s more, this stylish, hugely likeable bit of adrenaline-pumped Euro-nonsense should shatter the illusions of those convinced that all subtitled fare is musty, wordy and dull.
The writer-director of "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer, must have heard the phrase "moving pictures" at an impressionable age and taken it literally.
For intellectuals, it's a thrilling exercise. For action- and visual-lovers, it's pure eye candy.
For intellectuals, it's a thrilling exercise. For action- and visual-lovers, it's pure eye candy.
Run, Lola, Run is a film I could not take my eyes off of. It's too good a movie to be true. It has everything...
A giant pinball game of a movie, Run Lola Run may be superficial and relatively meaningless, but it sure is great fun.
Run Lola Run is more than the sum of its gimmicks: It has a real worldview.
Cleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...
Accompanied by techno music and populated by young and likeable "hip" protagonists, Run Lola Run is very pleasing to the eyes and ears of its viewers.
Run Lola Run could very well be the punchiest piece of concept art to ever hit the silver screen, a shock-dose of German existential cinema you can ride.
Run Lola Run's power isn't in celebrating the giddy mixture of testosterone, drugs and new youth culture (i.e., electronica), but in taking the oldest of questions...
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