Lola

"Lola" foregår i vore dages Berlin og er egentlig en actionkrimi om Lola, der må hjælpe sin noget anløbne kæreste fra en grum skæbne, hvis hun vil beholde ham.... Det vil hun..! - og så har hun 20 minutter til at

skaffe de 100.000 DM, som han skal levere kl. 12.

Lola løber meget i filmen og et af hendes første stop er hendes bankdirektørfar, der har en overraskelse til hende - herefter breder desperationen sig.

Filmens er imidlertid temmelig meget mere end historien. Dens originale fortælleform tager tilskueren ved næsen mange gange. Filmen jonglerer i et dynamisk tempo imellem kamerabevægelser der er tilpasset Lolas løb og en vekslen imellem realfilm, animation og video.

Filmen vandt publikumsprisen ved Sundance Filmfestivalen i 1998. Instruktøren er Tom Tykwer, der er meget populær i sit hjemland og mange anser ham for at være det nye store håb i tysk film.

The film is set in present-day Berlin and is an action detective film about the girl, Lola, who has to save her shady boyfriend from a cruel fate, if she wants to keep him...which she does! Therefore she has 20 minutes to find the 100.000 DM which he has to pay at 12 o'clock. - Lola does a lot of running around, and one of her first stops is with her father, who is a bank manager, and who has a surprise in store for her. After this Lola is driven to despair.

But there is much more to the film than the plot. The audience is often taken in by its peculiar narrative style, as the film, at a dynamic speed, is balancing between camera movement adjusted to Lola's running about and alternating real film, animation, and video.

The film won the audience prize at The Sundance Film festival in 1998.

The director, Tom Tykwer, is very popular in his native country, Germany, and is considered as a coming star of German film.

Germany, 1998 Running time: 87 min.