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Run Lola Run (1999)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:19
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
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
Cleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...
Not only does Lola run, she takes this hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film with her.
The writer-director of "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer, must have heard the phrase "moving pictures" at an impressionable age and taken it literally.
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...
Run Lola Run is the feverish, wish-fulfillment embodiment of everyone's unspoken dream...
...a sort of power-pop variation on the mystical time-bending Euro-art movies made by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.
It's a furiously kinetic display of pyrotechnics from the director Tom Tykwer, who fuses lightning-fast visual tricks, tirelessly shifting styles and the arbitrary possibilities of interactive storytelling...
A low-budget no-brainer, Run Lola Run is a lot more fun than Speed, a big-budget no-brainer...
In fact, it turns out, not surprisingly, that it is boring to watch someone run for 87 minutes...
Interspersed with Lola's zigzag swiftness are moments when the action shifts into trancelike tableaux.
...the movie is a departure from the norm that will have audiences chattering well into the night...
Telling the plot three times, with cunning variations, Tykwer mixes pixilated photos, split screens, cartooning, the works.
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