Run Lola Run
(Lola Rennt)
Screening on Film
Directed by Tom Tykwer.
With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup.
Germany, 1998, 35mm, color, 80 min.
German with English subtitles.
With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup.
Germany, 1998, 35mm, color, 80 min.
German with English subtitles.
A critical and popular success at home and abroad, Tykwer’s inventive Run Lola Run sets a frenetic pace (fueled by the techno-score of Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil) as it simultaneously enacts three resolutions to its thriller plot line. Small-time gang courier Manni has misplaced 100,000 DM in a bag and has twenty minutes to find or replace it. Girlfriend Lola comes to his aid, racing through the streets of Berlin as split-second decisions become life altering. For Tykwer, the film is about romance and the "sheer, unadorned pleasure of speed."
