Run Lola Run [VHS]

Run Lola Run [VHS]
by Tom Tykwer

Run Lola Run [VHS]
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Actor: Armin Rohde, Franka Potente, Herbert Knaup, Moritz Bleibtreu, Nina Petri
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cinematographer: Frank Griebe
Writer: Tom Tykwer
Editor: Mathilde Bonnefoy
Producer: Andreas Schreitm?ller
Producer: Gebhard Henke
Producer: Maria K?pf
Producer: Stefan Arndt
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 80 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

VHS Movie Reviews of Run Lola Run [VHS]

Movie Review: Funny tragic comedy
Summary: 3 Stars

Somehow funny movie of no funny things as Lola needed finding and handing in 100 000 DM during 20 minutes to boyfriend having this fortune lost in a subway.

Tackling a problem is being analysed with three approaches presenting completely different results.

Movie Review: Watchable I suppose
Summary: 2 Stars

The only reason I came across this film was that I was mesmerized by the director's more recent work, the Perfume. So I thought I'd check out the rest of his films.

Lola gets a call from her boyfriend that he's lost his crime boss' money. And the boss is coming to collect it in 20 minutes. So Lola starts running, originally to see her dad who is a banker. And then depending on how fast she can go or whether she gets held up or not, entire lives can work out differently not only for herself but also for people that she bumps into - literally. The movie shows us 3 possible scenarios.

The action's obviously quite fast, because she's running just about the whole movie, so you are made to feel that things are happening. But it's all extremely shallow, the thrills and developments are very uninteresting.

We are shown fates of people we do not care about at all. This is one of the main flaws of this film. It assumes that the audience will care about strangers. The only guy I cared about in the movie was the homeless fellow, I looove that beard. Even Lola and her boyfriend didn't really move me, though they looked like a lovely couple.

The message of the film is also very much irrelevant. That the little choices we make, or even just pure chance, can have big effects on our lives and others'. No kidding! Give this guy a Nobel Prize! But I have a question: So what??? You go about your life doing things the way you see fit. There's no place for what ifs and what would have happened if my dad had chosen my aunt instead of my mum? Irrelevant.

The annoying thumping music adds insult to injury, it is very poor, something you would expect at a brain numbing nightclub just to keep you awake.

All in all, it's an interesting enough film, if only cos you are curious how it will end but apart from Lola's and the homeless dude's hair there's not much there to really care for or remember. 5 out of 10.

Movie Review: Nice movie on Chance
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie could have ended after 30min. Instead it repeats the first 30 min 2 more times, but with different outcomes. It shows how the little things in life may affect the bigger picture and course of one's life. A bit philosophical of a movie, but it is fast paced. Lola does run a lot!

Movie Review: In the Long Run...
Summary: 4 Stars

Since I first saw RUN LOLA RUN right aroung the same time as I did Michael Haneke's 1997 FUNNY GAMES, the two remain linked in my mind. Odd in a way, since I love this movie--and have watched it several times--and had quite the opposite reaction to the Haneke film, to the point where I refused to consider seeing the American re-make from 2008. But there was one significant aspect these two late-90s films shared: both films very deliberately called attention to the fact that they WERE indeed films: artificial representations of the real world, subject to authorial intervention and variation at almost any point in the plot.

Tom Tykwer's LOLA is, in many ways, an extremely self-conscisous film. Its thrice-repeated basic plot, with extensive variations and elaborations, is a reminder that narratives can (and perhaps should) be subject to artistic manipulation or--as in Hollywood--to audience reactions at the test screenings. "Don't like THAT ending? Try this one! Or this one. We must have something here you'd like--and would pay seven bucks a pop to see." RUN LOLA RUN is a movie for anyone who's ever compulsively watched every single alt-ending provided on a DVD. It works for the same reason that the various versions of any other narrative work. Endings are seldom neat and always subject to change. Any plot suggests its alternative versions, "What if?" says the audience, "What if?"

LOLA lets the viewer in on the secret--and, to extent, on the decision making. This is a fiction, and you're not allowed to forget it. There could be something depressingly Sisyphean about Lola's desperate 20 minute run, except that the camerawork, the editing and the music are so faced paced and compelling that it's easy to forget the desperate situaion Lola and boyfriend Manni find themselves in and just enjoy the ride. After individual segments in which, first, Lola dies and, then, Manni does, we are primed and fully entitled to the fairytale happy ending the third segment brings. This is less Nietzsche' "eternal return" than George Harrison's "with every mistake we must surely be learning."

It is the exhilaration, the downright glee of possibility that keeps us engrossed in this hyperkinetic PoMo fairytale. And that's probably the reason why I so preferred it to FUNNY GAMES. The Haneke movie deliberately breaks from the narrative, tears down the fourth wall--or the moviehouse screen, if you prefer--about 3/4 of the way through. In that grimly violent film, which seems to marching relentlessly to a violently conclusion, this break comes as a real break for the emotionally exhausted viewer. But no sooner, does he break from the action than he picks right back up on it again. This story, he seems to say, HAS to end this way. It may be a fiction, but it must follow its own deadly internal logic.

That was a nihilistic stance if there ever was one. By contrast, RUN LOLA RUN is almost sweetly Romantic. Fates are not sealed here. Fictions, like the real life that informs them, have infinite possibilities. all of which have an internal logic of their own. Third time's a charm for Lola and Manni.



Movie Review: Very creative and interesting
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie has lot of things going for it: an original plot, a great lead performance, a fine soundtrack, and a fast paced action filled story. This is one that definitely hold your attention throughout the movie. It's easy to see how this launched Potente to further success.
What it lacks is well fleshed out and likeable characters. From the drug dealing boyfriend to the adulterous and unloving father to his unfaithful mistress, it's not easy to root for too many of these characters. Even the dog is a grouch! In my view,this keeps it from being a 5 star movie although it's many merits are hard to ignore.
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Summary of Run Lola Run [VHS]

It's difficult to create a film that's fast paced, exciting, and aesthetically appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer, is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20?minutes, they must come up with 100,000?deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni--attempting to extract the cash first from her double-dealing father (appropriately a bank manager), and then by any means necessary. From this point nothing goes right for either protagonist, but just when you think you've figured out the movie, the director introduces a series of brilliant existential twists that boggle the mind. Tykwer uses rapid camera movements and innovative pauses to explore the theme of cause and effect. Accompanied by a pulse-pounding soundtrack, we follow Lola through every turn and every heartbreak as she and Manni rush forward on a collision course with fate. There were a variety of original and intelligent films released in 1999, but perhaps none were as witty and clever as this little gem--one of the best foreign films of the year. --Jeremy Storey

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