Run Lola Run
Directed by Tom Tykwer
Viewed at the San Francisco
International Film Festival


It all started with a phone call, I guess it always does. Manny left the bag of money on the train by mistake, and it's the bum who finds it. Manny has only got 20 minutes to get it back or face the wrath of his nasty boss Ronnie. Lola was late to meet him because her moped was stolen. She pleads for Manny to wait for her, she will help him. That's when she starts running, to the heart thumping industrial soundtrack, music to run by. She goes to see her father, a bank executive, but he is in the middle of a serious discussion with his mistress. He won't give her any money so she continues running to meet Manny. She turns the corner just in time to see him robbing the supermarket. She runs to his side and they hurry down the street. The cops surround them and accidentally Lola is shot. As she lay dying, we flash back to see her and Manny in bed talking about love and then interestingly the whole process begins again slightly differently... It is a very fast-paced movie, Lola running from beginning to end. There is an edgy humor and the idea of the variations is quite successful, until the final scene! I felt like had run a marathon...

Reviewed by Eric Michel, FilmCities

Run Lola Run
Country: Germany
Year: 1998
Running Time: 81 Min.
Cast
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaap, Armin Rohde, Joachim Król, Nina Petri
Producer: Stefan Arndt
Editor: Matilde Bonnefoy
Cinematographer: Frank Griebe
Screenwriter: Tykwer