Lola

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Ed . @RT01276001 Aug 29 I find the ending between Lola and Michel puzzling. Demy shows his talent otherwise as a writer and certainly in the film's direction. The weaving in and out of the men in Lola's life is elegantly deft. Roland is lucky to have survived his stint as a smuggler and parlay it into a bejeweled career and with a jewel of a woman, Geneviève. See more Rare T @RT00283363 09/10/2024 🤧 See more Gerry M @GermWald 06/19/2024 Idiotic, moronic dialogue - waste of time. See more Abe A @RT14133446 02/08/2024 Too many intertwined strands did this one in for me, and a not-wholly-compelling plotline with some wooden performances, particularly by Marc Michel. On the strength on this, I'd class Jacques Demy as a second-rank director behind the first tier of Godard, Truffaut and (possibly) Alain Resnais in the French New Wave, all of whom have a better grasp of form and structure. See more s r @ScottR 11/08/2021 1001 movies to see before you die. An entertaining take on multiple couples / relationships based around Lola. A hint to the French new wave. Saw it on TCM. See more 07/27/2021 Waiting for her first love's, Michel, return who's been gone for about seven years, Lola seems to have come to terms with the fact he's gone forever. it's just some sort of a desperate longing that would easily fade away hadn't been for lasting memories that one can't help recalling. In Jacques Demy's Nantes, poignancy of loss reigns supreme — whether it's of love or dreams or whatsoever — in spite of its breezy air. In Lola, there's also effortless interlacing between each character that cross paths with another, dredging up each other's long-forsaken memories and, more or less, rejuvenating them through mutual interactions. Having been introduced to the background of Roland Cassard here, I loved how Cherbourg continued his path while bolstering the circular nature of Lola. Aside from a silly plot diversion revolving around Frankie and fourteen-year-old Cécile, cabaret numbers tossed in for some reason and a few plodding moments as it's nearing its third act, Lola is a decent debut of unrequited love and disillusionment, injected with a sense of ennui and a spirit of carefree in equal measure, and featuring beautiful black-and-white wide shots, hand-held constantly-moving camera and light-weighted humour. See more Read all reviews

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