Run Lola Run

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pink.tutu95

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Anyone seen this film before? I just saw it for the first time, and its brilliant! Really fast moving and the fast pumping techno tracks go well with the film. Thinking about it now, theres not really a deep plot in the film, but it still somehow manages to grip you for an hour and a half. I think i'll be buying it on dvd!

Anyone else feel the same?
 
Run Lola Run is my second favourite foriegn language film of all time :) The pace is amazing considering - I thought that the film had only lasted 45 minutes and left the cinema thinking it was a short film :eek:

If you liked Run Lola Run then you may want to try watching Franka Potente's (actress that plays Lola) later work 'Anatomy' (a.k.a Anatomie) which is another fantasic film - a dark thriller that seriously chills you. I hear that they have also made Anatomie 2, although I haven't seen it yet ;)

My favourite forien language film has to be the french movie Taxi - it's comic, fun filled and fast. Think cheezy-free Fast and the Furious crossed with the witty/camp humour of The Italian Job (60s version naturally)
 
It's a fantastic film. I was blown away the first time I saw it and I'm constanly recommending it to people who say they 'don't like foreign films'. Many of them find that they do upon watching 'Lola'.

The plot, if you can call it a plot, really is quite deep when you start examining it. It's certainly deeper than the average Holywood blockbuster. It deals with fate and destiny in a similar way that 'Sliding doors' did but infinitely better and with a bonus ending.

It also questions the way people's lives are intertwined and the consequences of the choices we make in a similar vein to 'Magnolia' or Alex Garland's 'The Tesseract''. The breakneck speed the film moves let's it churn out so many ideas, you barely have a chance to notice them all the first time round and it still manages to get you sympathising with the characters. It's a film you can watch again and again and spot something new every time.

I never quite worked out the significance of the interval scenes between Manni and Lola in bed.

All that, plus Franka Potente looking sexy as all hell with red hair. :)

It's been parodied by 'The Simpsons' too, anyone see that?
 
cheers guys :)

yeah the little "and then" bits i thought were pretty fascinating but happened very quickly so a few more viewings would be needed before you see it fully.

thanks for explainging a bit more about the plot, i had a feeling it had something deeper in it and now i can see where it is.

About the parodyed simpsons, spooky you should ask that:

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26976&highlight=run+lola+run

:D

Anyway im just heading over to play.com to buy the movie :)
 
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