If you look for German action films, you will mainly see international films with German participation, for example ‘Bourne Identity’ or ‘Atomic Blonde’, shot in Berlin. Fast action films made in Germany are rare.
But among these few is a gem that everyone should have seen at least once: Tom Tykwer’s ‘Lola Run’ received international attention in 1998, won several awards and is still one of the best German films of all time. “Lola Runs” is a fast vortex, a spiral that pulls you in and spits you out breathless Playing with possibilities and impossibilities, a race against time.
From now on you can watch “Lola Runs” as part of your subscription Netflix current. At the same time, several other services currently also have the film in their flat-rate program: for example ARD Plus, Joyn Plus+, MagentaTV or several Amazon Prime Video Channels*. As Prime customers, you can even stream the latter – such as the Kabel Eins CLASSICS channel – for free as part of a multi-day trial subscription:
That’s what “Lola Runs” is about
Lola’s (Franka Potente) phone rings, her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) is on the line: he calls from a payphone: “Where were you…?” Despair is great because Manni’s coup failed and he now has twenty minutes to get 100,000 marks from somewhere. If he doesn’t make it, he’s as good as dead. For Manni and Lola, a race against time begins: And Lola runs away.
If you prefer to invest in your haptic home theater collection, It would be wise to purchase a Blu-ray of the modern classic. In the bonus material you will find audio commentary with Tom Tykwer, cameraman Frank Griebe and editor Mathilde Bonnefoy, as well as a making-of for the film.
A visual fireworks display
In ‘Lola Run’ Tom Tykwer digs deep into his bag of tricks – or rather: his bag of tricks. The staccato-like editing of various visual effects makes the film a wild rollercoaster ride that offers something new after every up and down. Animated sequences meet a series of photographs, black and white meets color – and the legendary opening credits alone were a hit when more than a thousand extras form a big LOLA RUN.
“Lola Run” is still a visual delight almost 30 years after its release. A film that you almost feel like you can comprehend: Colors are Tom Tykwer’s thing, as was the case in “Winter Sleeper”, where each character was assigned a color and the film was composed with it. In his later “Perfume” it is the sensual that was conveyed by the colors, the orange-red Mirabelle plums that tumbled along, while Karoline Herfurth’s equally orange-red hair had to suffer.
In “Lola Runs,” the red of Lola’s hair is reflected in the red telephone receiver flying through the air. And when Lola runs like crazy through Berlin in the 90s, the ‘Butterfly Effect’ repeats itself three times: What if? And what if that’s not the case? The possibilities of an entire human life captured in snapshots in just a few seconds: The worlds between winning the lottery and disaster are sometimes jostling distance apart.
Through cinematic means the impossible is made possible, realities are broken and bent, and the film almost follows its own restless rhythm: That of its rich techno soundtrack, namely. This was produced by Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil and also features driving tracks by Franka Potente and Thomas D.
You can’t get more nineties than that. And yet ‘Run Lola Run’ is more than just a film of its time: The universal core of the film can be found in (of course again) red scenes. Because in the end it is love that somehow makes everything possible. And that simply makes the film timeless.
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