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Run Lola Run, 1998

Run Lola Run

German, English, Japanese

Germany

Rating:7.9
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Profile of Run Lola Run

The mood of Run Lola Run is stylized, exciting, and mind bending. The plot centers around chases, a race against time, and crimes. It is a foreign, thriller, and action movie. Stylistically, Run Lola Run is nonlinear, is episodic, and stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. Run Lola Run is set in Germany. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being a Sundance Festival winner and critically acclaimed.

Summary of Run Lola Run

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.

Details

Language: German, English, Japanese
Country: Germany
Release date: January 1999
Runtime: 81 min

Cast and Crew

Franka Potente as Lola in Run Lola Run
Franka Potente

as Lola

Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni in Run Lola Run
Moritz Bleibtreu

as Manni

Photos

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Clips

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Run Lola Run: Trailer

Critics Reviews

Los Angeles Times
As essential in its own way as Anton Karas' celebrated zither work was to "The Third Man," Lola's music is perfectly suited to the film's aims and just about addictive in its throbbing, insinuating rhythms.
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  • by: Kenneth Turan
Variety
A highly accomplished, compact feature, which, while it may be light on depth, is rich in humor, rhythm, energy and inventiveness.
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  • by: David Rooney

Users Reviews

This movie's poor dubbing spoils an otherwise interesting flic. I wish I'd watched this in its native tongue & used the subtitles. Probably would have given it a higher rating then. The music sound track is quite good though.
  • 21.January.2011
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  • by: chrissnave
  • chrissnave rated this movie0/10
Franka Potente gave a great performance as Lola. It is easy to say that she was fantastic, because it is a role that requires a great deal of physical acting and we didn't get to know a lot about Lola, hence the film wasn't overly-focusing on her...
  • 10.January.2011
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  • by: Netflowers
  • Netflowers rated this movie10/10Must See
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