Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Germany's entrant into the Oscar's Best Foreign Film of 98
This is one of the best films I have seen in a great long while. The cinematography is groundbreaking, the storyline is impossible to predict, and the sidelines to the story are great - both the bedroom conversations that describe Manni's true feelings toward his girlfriend, and thoughts about death, and the 10-second flashes into the lives of side characters and how those lives are affected by the decisions the main characters take. I suppose I would like this film less if I didn't also like techno, but even if you don't, this movie has just so much to offer, and is so amazingly different than the formula movies, that you have to see it. I'm one of those bastards in the movie theatre who tends to know what's about to happen before it actually does, and I almost spoke aloud, "For crying out loud, it's only 20 minutes into the movie. It's not like the main character's going to die." WRONG! The plot twists are impossible to imagine before you see it. (And I'm not giving anything away, eitehr) Final note: My cousins visisted me (in San Francisco) from Germany, and said it was the best German film they had ever seen. That they ended up seeing it in America, in German with English subtitles, made it a bit surreal for them. But still, an outstanding film all the way around. I can't wait for more movies by this director.