Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Marvellous.
Run Lola Run isn't well served on a small TV screen and its energy is diminished when experienced at home, but this is a truly excellent DVD edition.A small criticism is in the chapter-selection screens. Though the division of the film is quite logical, the layout of the pages is quite bad. I also couldn't figure out how to turn off the commentary track after turning it on, forcing me to take out the disc and restart the machine to restore the original audio.But now to the legions of good points. The commentaries by Tom Tykwer and Franka Potente are righteously involving, both director and star eloquent and affectionate about the film. (It's especially amusing to note that they seem reluctant to acknowledge that they are dating.) The technical details Tykwer offers are great for a deeper understand of the execution, and their anecdotes are fun, well phrased, and exciting. Thumbs up to the commentary tracks. There are also biographies on each, subtitle options, and the picture quality is good though, again, if you missed this in the theatres, you didn't quite get the full impact of this movie.Run Lola Run was an enjoyable experience for me at the theatre and, much to my surprise, has grown on me since. Potente's lead performance is Oscar-worthy, emotional at just the right moments and comic and spunky at others. Moritz Bleibtreu is wonderful as the bumbling Manny, and the script is a great innovation. The music-video stylings sometimes detract from the story, but as a whole, it's like a whole new way of seeing the world and, technical innovations aside, the movie is fun, comedically superb, and involving on a human level, a rarity for such a technically oriented film.