Lola

Name: Lola
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: March 22, 2002
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 73

2002

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Films Around the World (I) | Release Date: March 22, 2002

Summary: A re-release of a 1961 Jacques Demy drama exploring the convoluted affections of a drifter for his newly rediscovered first love, cabaret dancer Lola.

Director: Jacques Demy

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Runtime: 90 min

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Edward Guthmann

Soft, evanescent and bittersweet. Read full review

Jami Bernard

Jacques Demy showed up with the lightest touch with his 1960 Lola, a movie that has been called a musical without music. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer

Shot in black and white by the renowned Raoul Coutard, and with a score by Michel Legrand, the film represents an idealized view of reality that will strike some viewers (including this one) as overly sentimental. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Like a Hollywood fairy tale, Lola is always threatening to turn into a musical. Its edge as a film comes from the fact that it never quite does. Read full review

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ahmedaiman1999

Jul 27, 2021

Waiting for her first love's, Michel, return who's been gone for about seven years, Lola seems to have come to terms with the fact he's gone forever. it's just some sort of a desperate longing that would easily fade away hadn't been for lasting memories that one can't help recalling. InWaiting for her first love's, Michel, return who's been gone for about seven years, Lola seems to have come to terms with the fact he's gone forever. it's just some sort of a desperate longing that would easily fade away hadn't been for lasting memories that one can't help recalling. In Jacques Demy's Nantes, poignancy of loss reigns supreme — whether it's of love or dreams or whatsoever — in spite of its breezy air. In Lola, there's also effortless interlacing between each character that cross paths with another, dredging up each other's long-forsaken memories and, more or less, rejuvenating them through mutual interactions. Having been introduced to the background of Roland Cassard here, I loved how Cherbourg continued his path while bolstering the circular nature of Lola. Aside from a silly plot diversion revolving around Frankie and fourteen-year-old Cécile, cabaret numbers tossed in for some reason and a few plodding moments as it's nearing its third act, Lola is a decent debut of unrequited love and disillusionment, injected with a sense of ennui and a spirit of carefree in equal measure, and featuring beautiful black-and-white wide shots, hand-held constantly-moving camera and light-weighted humour.… Expand

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