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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Jacques Demy (writer)
Release Date:
14 October 1962 (USA) more
Plot:
In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 win more
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(2 articles)
36th Telluride Film Festival Announces 2009 Lineup
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Marvelous juxtaposition of harsh reality and lyricism more (17 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Anouk Aimée | ... | Lola (Cécile) | |
| Marc Michel | ... | Roland Cassard | |
| Jacques Harden | ... | Michel | |
| Alan Scott | ... | Frankie | |
| Elina Labourdette | ... | Madame Desnoyers | |
| Margo Lion | ... | Jeanne, Michel's Mother | |
| Annie Duperoux | ... | Cécile Desnoyers (as Annie Dupéroux) | |
| Catherine Lutz | ... | Claire, the bar owner | |
| Corinne Marchand | ... | Daisy | |
| Yvette Anziani | ... | Madame Frédérique | |
| Dorothée Blank | ... | Dolly | |
| Isabelle Lunghini | ... | Nelly | |
| Annick Noël | ... | Ellen | |
| Ginette Valton | ... | Beauty Shop Owner | |
| Anne Zamire | ... | Maggie |
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Donna di vita (Italy)
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Runtime:
USA:90 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Jacques Demy's first film is a tribute to Max Ophuls. more
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Referenced in Une femme est une femme (1961) more
Soundtrack:
Concerto pour flûte en ré majeur more
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This film, which sets up many of the story lines and themes that are taken up in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," is as charming and seductive as the latter, even in black and white and without the musical numbers. In fact, the black and white is quite spectacular--the camera loves Anouk Aimée in particular--and the film seems as if it is going to turn into a musical at almost every moment. While watching the film, one thrills to see the first statement of director Demy's beautiful and poignant cinematic universe. "Lola" is at once a splendid homage to the classic Hollywood film, and at the same time, through its expression of complex, mostly tragic themes, and quotidian--if not ugly--realities, something much more intriguing than a conventional film romance. Yet, such harshness is tempered, even transformed, by the dreamscape of cinema, both in what is depicted on-screen as well as through the characters' own processes of dreaming. You needn't resist the temptation to call it sublime.