Run Lola Run

Lola's boyfriend Manny has lost the hundred thousand in cash he was carrying for his criminal boss and Lola has 20 minutes to come up with the cash needed to save him. It's a wild, frenetic, exciting and fast paced classic that breaks rule after rule of filmmaking yet makes it all work stupendously well. This is an unforgettable, pulse-pounding masterpiece! Run Lola Run is an amazing film presented on a glorious looking 4K Blu-ray disc. The colors pop, the sound envelopes you magnificently, and the film never slows down to let you catch your breath. This is a must-have for any film lover or film collector!

It’s Berlin from 500 feet and Franke Potenke went on to pair with Matt Damon in The Jason Bourne franchise. She’s worth the 90-minute focus and the story is a spell/binder.

Great acting and cinematography. Worth the price. We will watch it again.

Very expensive for what we're getting. The A/V quality alone are fantastic while the packaging can't be more basic and the extras very poor. Still, buy this if you're a fan of the movie because on the A/V standpoint, it's beats all previous versions.

I see hundreds of movies a year, but somehow, I had managed to miss RUN LOLA RUN until the first week in August, 2005. YEARS after the film had come out, and years after imitators had their shots at ruining the style (like imitators of PULP FICTION kinda cheapened that whole genre). Not to fear...this film is a kick of PURE ENERGY!!I felt honest-to-God jazzed watching this movie. Originality and ENERGY pop off the screen. Basically, we're watching three little movies...each of the same scenario, but playing out in different ways. We see how one or two tiny little changes early on can snowball into HUGE changes once the story reaches its end. Lola has to come up with a HUGE pile of money in 20 minutes flat, or her boyfriend will either be killed by a mobster, or take the foolish step of holding up a grocery store for the cash. Can she "fix" his problem in time? That's about the plot...but this summary tells you NOTHING about how this film feels.I'm a 41 year old man. Not the target audience. I don't listen to the kind of music played here (techno...for lack of a better word). I speak some German, but not enough that I didn't have to read the subtitles. I always look for holes in the plot of films. I'm always skeptical of "artiness for its own sake." And yet, while the film is "artful," I thought it was a perfect blending of a filmmaking style with a story-telling intent. Lola is under a deadline...and everything reminds us of that. The pulsing, repetitive score...the fast camera work...the color choices...everything.But the best part of all is Franke Potente, the star of the film. US audiences know her from the "girlfriend" role in BOURNE IDENTITY...and she was the best cast part of the film...she seemed real, smart, sexy, foreign and fully-realized. In RUN LOLA RUN, she shows why an American director casting a big-budget American film would have gone with her...she's GREAT! The film spends many minutes focused just on Lola running. From the side, from head-on...we see her run, run, run. Red/pink hair sailing wildly behind. Her face is a masterpiece...at one moment she's got fear, intelligence, determination and exhaustion etched there. She's very young, and in over her head...but we immediately want her to succeed as much as SHE wants to succeed. It's a riveting performance in a film full of fun ideas.If I sit back and think about it...I realize that what Lola is running for is to save a criminal boyfriend (who's also stupid and a bit of a whiner), and that performing criminal acts is not beyond her either. Most of the characters she encounters along her way (especially her father and his mistress), are quite unlikeable too. From a surface level, we should have NO business getting behind these schmucks. But Lola's ferocity is an undeniable magnet. And the film moves WAY too fast to do anything but leave you breathless.It's rated "R," mostly for some strong language, and for some unsavory scenes with the father and mistress. I don't recommend it by any stretch for kids...but I suggested it to my 17 year old son, and he loved it. He's showing it to his friends. It's a COOL movie...simply put. It deserves all the accolades that have come its way.

I have not watched a lot of foreign films so I thought I'd grab Run Lola, Run. It's a surreal film in a lot of ways. Even before we get to the star crossed lovers who get in over their heads with a fencing mob operation, the film wobbles through crowds of people asking about Man, the way he questions, the answers leading to more questions, in a circular philosophy.The camera focuses on a few of the people who will later play larger roles later in the film. Finally, a security guard says "Scheisse" happens and kicks a soccer ball high in the air!We fly with the ball, and then come down to Lola's world. As you've read in other reviews and synopses, it's basically about Lola's boyfriend, who explains that during a fencing operation with some diamonds, he sold the diamonds to a fence for 100,000 Marks, and now he only has twenty minutes before meeting the mob boss who will kill Manni (her boyfriend) when the boss finds out Manni lost the money on the subway."And it's all your fault for being late!" he yells at her which was really not fair, being the irresponsible dork that he really is. But I digress!Hitchcock has always said that rather than having a bunch of talking heads in a film, that one should use the cinema as a way of communicating (or words to that effect) and Lola definitely delivers.First, Lola actually has a power or two. First, she can run for miles without being hardly out of breath. And two, she can scream with such intensity that she can break glass.There are actually three scenarios or 20 minute clips that show the various fates of Lola and the people she runs across.In the first one, she screams and shatters mirrors! Then she throws the phone up in the air and it lands flawlessly on the phone cradle. Then she runs! There is some animation in here too as well as some cool electronic music to keep us moving. A few seconds difference in running into a neighbor's dog makes a woman who was delayed by this now win the lottery. Makes a bike thief become a bum. And so on!Manni wants to rob a store to get the money. Lola fails with her cheating father and helps Manni rob the store. She comes to a bad end.In the second one, much as the first, she throws the phone into the air, lands flawlessly on the cradle, but this time (to make a long story short) Manni meets an untimely fate.In the third one, when all parties are more or less behaving themselves and are doing good for others, things turn out the best. At least for Lola and Manni.The DVD has French and English subtitles if you want, as well as voice-over English and French. I chose the English and it went quite smoothly.Interesting too that the credits roll UP as opposed to American films rolling down. Wild stuff. Understandable why this film won the Audience Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.So run, do not walk, to your favorite DVD store and pick this up!Other Franka Potente (Lola) Films:The Princess and the WarriorCreepBourne Identity (Single-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

nice movie. feel-good surprise ending. be prepared to read captions.

Great film

sono un appassionato e collezionista di film e come si può immaginare tengo molto alla loro condizione.sono sempre restio ad acquistare prodotti usati in quanto il giudizio sul loro stato é molto soggettivo ma posso affermare che Vervan mi ha dimostrato estrema sincerità e trasparenza. ho apprezzato la confezione che ha veramente protetto questa rarità, pagata cara, ma se li merita tutti.un inchino, Vervan!Nicola

Ya había visto la película y quería conseguirla para trabajar con ella con mis alumnos de alemán. Está subtitulada para sordos y por tanto eso facilita el trabajo.

très bon film,énergique,et original:-dans la manière dont le film a été tourné,mélange des styles(flm,dessin animé),variation des plans de vues et des montages,avec une musique tout aussi variée et énergique,-une sorte de mélange de roméo et juliette et de bonnie and clyde,version très moderne et revisitée,avec cette question en filigrane:jusqu'où peut on aller par amour?comment faire pour être fidèle à l'Autre tout en restant fidèle à Soi?-une réflexion très interessante sur les relations familiales,sur les non dits familiaux qui éclatent quand on s'y attend le moins...et si on pouvait avoir plusieurs vies,laquelle choisirions nous?-pour terminer une question que pose ce film:l'être humain est il assujetti à une destinée à laquelle il ne peut échapper,ou bien l'être humain peut il être acteur de sa vie et par la même peut il ainsi déjouer,changer le cours de sa destinée?Vous aurez la réponse à toutes ces questions en regardant ce film "cours Lola cours"...à votre tour,courez voir ce film en dvd...