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| Chopped up, manipulated images of the two stars make up this poster for Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run |
Lola is a fiery red-haired young woman, whose boyfriend is a dopey drug dealer, who loses a lot of money, which he now reckons that she must get back for him. - In 20 minutes!
Run Lola Run is written and directed by great German filmmaker Tom Tykwer (Friday Afternoon (1986)). The original title translates to, 'Lola runs'.
As a film it impresses for a while with its equilibristic changes in style and the momentum of movement that it creates, but once it becomes clear that its plot rests on us going through more or less the same scenario three times (each with variations of decisions, chance, fate, behavior etc.), Run Lola Run becomes repetitive for me and loses its freshness. Furthermore Moritz Bleibtreu's (Angel of Evil/Vallanzasca - Gli Angeli del Male (2010)) boyfriend character is a dope, and Franka Potente's (Eichmann (2007)) Lola also isn't sympathetic: She lives as if the entire universe revolves around her, (in fact I was most on the side of her beleaguered step-father, which almost certainly wasn't Tykwer's intention.)
This drama plays out as a young, rave-punked work of new-age mysticism, a minor ride, which imagines that it says something deep and profound, which it actually doesn't.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 1.75 mil. $
Box office: 22.8 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 13.02 times its cost)
[Run Lola Run was released 20 August (Germany) and runs 80 minutes. Shooting took place in Berlin, Germany from June - July 1997. The film opened #34 to a 123k $ first weekend in 12 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #19 and in 172 theaters (different weeks), grossing 7.2 mil. $ (31.6 % of the total gross). In production country Germany the film was the highest-grossing of the year with 13.8 mil. $ (60.5 %). The film was nominated for a BAFTA, a European Film award, won 7/7 German Film award nominations, a National Board of Review award, and a prize at Sundance, among several other honors. It was Germany's official entry to the Best Foreign Film Oscar category of the year but went without a nomination. Roger Ebert gave it a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch higher than this one. Tykwer returned with The Princess and the Warrior/Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (2000). Potente returned in Am I Beautiful?/¿Bin Ich Schön? (1998); Bleibtreu in Love Your Neighbor!/Liebe Deine Nächste! (1998). Run Lola Run is certified fresh at 93 % with a 7.70/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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