Many people seem to have the idea that German cinema is flat, existential and overly dramatic.
Run Lola Run dispels this myth in a fast pace, hyperkinetic style that rivets you to the screen. The story is very simple but it is the telling that makes this movie. He calls Lola in desperation, informing her that he has to come up with the money in twenty minutes or the criminal will surely kill him. Lola runs from her home desperate to help her boy friend in some unknown manner. Within the 81 minutes of the film the story is retold three times.