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Run Lola Run

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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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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Run Lola Run is fun, fun, fun.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
03/19/02
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Cleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...

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02/14/01
David Rooney
David Rooney
Variety
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Not only does Lola run, she takes this hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film with her.

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02/14/01
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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A madly spinning top of a movie.

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01/01/00
Entertainment Weekly
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The writer-director of "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer, must have heard the phrase "moving pictures" at an impressionable age and taken it literally.

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01/01/00
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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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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Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy
Film.com
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Run Lola Run is the feverish, wish-fulfillment embodiment of everyone's unspoken dream...

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Gemma Files
Gemma Files
Film.com
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...a sort of power-pop variation on the mystical time-bending Euro-art movies made by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.

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01/01/00
J. Hoberman
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Village Voice
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...it's the most fun I have had at any movie thus far in 1999.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
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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...

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01/01/00
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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FAST, smart and fun,

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01/01/00
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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A low-budget no-brainer, Run Lola Run is a lot more fun than Speed, a big-budget no-brainer...

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01/01/00
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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In fact, it turns out, not surprisingly, that it is boring to watch someone run for 87 minutes...

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Peter Brunette
Peter Brunette
Film.com
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Interspersed with Lola's zigzag swiftness are moments when the action shifts into trancelike tableaux.

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01/01/00
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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...the movie is a departure from the norm that will have audiences chattering well into the night...

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01/01/00
Peter Stack
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle
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Telling the plot three times, with cunning variations, Tykwer mixes pixilated photos, split screens, cartooning, the works.

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01/01/00
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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A film of nonstop motion and visual invention.

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