Lola

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Rare T 🤧 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/10/24 Full Review Gerry M Idiotic, moronic dialogue - waste of time. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/20/24 Full Review Abe A 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/24 Full Review s r 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review William L I love the idea of a doting French single mother in 1961 hounding her teenage daughter to improve her conduct before letting her smoke at the dinner table. Interesting to see a director so well-known for his use of vibrant color and musical spectacle take on a film that is visually more typical of French New Wave sensibilities - urban French street life in black and white - while keeping some of the lyricism that would become his hallmark. A tale of love and loyalty, Lola herself is a single mother left abandoned by the first love that she still has deep-rooted affection for, attempting to provide for herself and her child while navigating a pair of romantic entanglements that she keeps at arm's length. Demy's first feature is not as thematically hefty as other films made by his contemporaries, but does portray love in a distinctive way, as a combination of obsession, irrationality, opportunism, and practicality, and takes the added step of stucturing itself as a network of chance encounters rather than plodding, monotonous meet-ups. Solid, but not my favorite from Demy by a long shot. I didn't realize that this film was intended to be a tribute to Ophuls and in particular his final work, Lola Montès, which I have not seen. Probably owe this film a rewatch once my familiarity with Ophuls' work is up to snuff. (3/5) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/31/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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