Run Lola Run

"One of my husband's (cinephile /former filmmaker's) favorite movies ever. He sat me down on our second date and we watched this. It's fantastic! I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone. 𝬟𝡍𝯻"

" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 rewatch. In the 90s this propulsive and heart racing film was so up my alley, I loved it so much! I haven’t watched it since not being able to find it on streaming til now. I went in thrilled with high expectations and…I’m happy to say it is still awesome! It’s so of the times when people weren’t instagram clones and enjoyed expressing themselves with a unique edge. god I miss those days..sigh "

" Strange but full of adrenaline and a ton of fun with great music."

"Franka."

"+ A visual kinetic force anchored by an urgent, charismatic performance by Franka Potente. Her character answers the phone to find her boyfriend in hysterics after leaving his boss's drug money on the subway. In fear of retribution he tells her he will rob a store. She convinces him to stay put in the phone booth while she finds the money. She only has twenty minutes. As she hangs up the phone the movie becomes a race against time that spans alternate timelines of the same twenty minute window of her finding the money. It employs many techniques including sporadic shifts into animation, scenes that cut in sync with the music to create a flow of internal states, and plays with the narrative premise of unfolding in real time by exploring aspects of Lola's experience that are not affected by time. I love how we come to know these characters, not through days or weeks, but by three variations of the same twenty minute window in her race against time. This film uses a voiceover at the beginning that lays the foundation for existential questions and provides opportunities to explore a vast world of philosophical ideas told through a highly stylized approach. In a nutshell this movie is what you would get if you took the tone and pace of the action movie Crank and blended it with Trainspotting. - With such interesting ideas set forth, the movie tries to explore them by making an action thriller that is a pure explosive expression of those ideas, but fails to do it in any way that gives it a sense of depth. The movie is wired to explode, leaving no time to really sit with these ideas. The result can feel too much like an erratic, highly stylized music video. It can also use these ideas to rush through certain sequences that I feel make the resolution at the end feel forced. Overall: An 80 minute kinetic expression of philosophical ideas in the form of an action thriller, that at times, feels too stylized for its own good, and would have failed without Franka Potente."

"Run, Lola, Run is a German action thriller in the expressionist tradition that stylishly explores the unpredictable effects that small variables can have on fate. The cinematography is dynamic. The dialogue is good. The characters are archetypes, and their development is minimal, but the point of the story is not the characters. It's what the three stories they're used to tell represent. "

"Saw this in the theatre when I was 14. Loved it then and it’s still so good! "

"The time loop thing was cool. Not sure what the ending was supposed to be though. Just not really sure what the movie was *about* in general on a thematic level."

"Was assigned to watch this 5 years ago in a college film class. It's definitely one of those hidden gems and a great conversation piece 🤣 "

"Awesome movie 🎬. Had a huge crush on the lead actress as a teenager 😀 "