Run Lola Run
Cast
Franka Potente as Lola
Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni
Herbert Knaup as Lolas Vater
Nina Petri as Jutta Hansen
Armin Rohde as Herr Schuster
Directed by Tom Tykwer
Rater #2 has description and review
Rater #1
Has not seen movie.
Rater #2
The tagline says it all: you make decisions all the time, some you
notice, some you don't. Even bumping into a person on the street may
have changed someone's life. As shown here in my favorite foreign
film.
The title character (Franka Potente) gets an urgent call from her
boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) who needs 100,000 marks because of
a botched drug deal. Oh yeah, he needs it in twenty minutes. So Lola
leaves her house and runs to try to raise the money.
The genius quality of the film is that it's one movie in three
different takes. Quick cuts from an object to another (2001: A Space
Odyssey, anyone?) and awesome, quick-tempoed music keep the heart
pounding and the eyes open. We don't have one story. If Lola trips on
the steps down from the apartment, she has a limp and thus the entire
section is different.
All the actors are incredible. Potente (last seen in The Bourne
Identity) stands out with her bright red hair (which she couldn't
wash for seven weeks) and her fast running. Bleibtreu, who'll rob a
store if Lola doesn't have the money by noon, also is great, no other
words to use.
It's fast-paced, fun, and heart-pounding. I love movies that don't
have "one" solution; here, there's three. Once something happens at
the end of twenty minutes, we know that that won't happen later. If
there is one aspect of the film I didn't enjoy so much were the
scenes where Manni and Lola were in bed. They did add depth to the
characters, but dampered a little from the quick pacing. But maybe
that was to calm us down, only to jump us up again.
Run Lola Run is a must see, with great acting, great action and
suspense, and a quick runtime (75 minutes). A movie that has the guts
to explore a new type of film, it's a great movie for anyone who
doesn't mind reading subtitles.
Rater #3
Has not Seen Movie
Rated R for some language and violence.
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