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Lola

  • 1961
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  • 1h 30m
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7.4/10
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Anouk Aimée in Lola (1961)
DramaRomance

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

  • Director
    • Jacques Demy
  • Writer
    • Jacques Demy
  • Stars
    • Anouk Aimée
    • Marc Michel
    • Jacques Harden
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    8.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jacques Demy
    • Writer
      • Jacques Demy
    • Stars
      • Anouk Aimée
      • Marc Michel
      • Jacques Harden
    • 43User reviews
    • 75Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
      • 2 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Anouk Aimée
    Anouk Aimée
    • Lola
    Marc Michel
    Marc Michel
    • Roland Cassard
    Jacques Harden
    Jacques Harden
    • Michel
    Alan Scott
    Alan Scott
    • Frankie
    Elina Labourdette
    Elina Labourdette
    • Madame Desnoyers
    Margo Lion
    Margo Lion
    • Jeanne
    Annie Duperoux
    Annie Duperoux
    • Cécile Desnoyers
    • (as Annie Dupéroux)
    Catherine Lutz
    Catherine Lutz
    • Claire
    Corinne Marchand
    Corinne Marchand
    • Daisy
    Yvette Anziani
    • Madame Frédérique
    Dorothée Blanck
    Dorothée Blanck
    • Dolly
    • (as Dorothée Blank)
    Isabelle Lunghini
    • Nelly
    Annick Noël
    • Ellen
    Ginette Valton
    • Hair Stylist's Mistress
    Anne Zamire
    Anne Zamire
    • Maggie
    Jacques Goasguen
    • M. François
    Babette Barbin
    • Minnie
    Jacques Lebreton
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      • Jacques Demy
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      • Jacques Demy
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    10the_monocle

    Wonderful

    LOLA is a wonderful movie. It may not have the intensity of THE UMBRELLAS or even YOUNG GIRLS, but it is the beginning of the Demy sensibility that came to fruition in those films. The difference is that in LOLA he takes more from the contemporary films scene, bowing to his peers as well as his predecessors. Despite criticisms, the effect of the film, its music and playful qualities, its excellent acting and camera, still puts contemporary films to shame.
    trpdean

    Loved it

    This director is ROMANTIC! I think he rightly shows the astonishing contrast between love being generated by complete chance and fleeting encounter - with its lasting consequence and possibly enduring devotion. I just loved it.

    One of the things that is so winning about this movie (also true of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) is how very modest the characters -- and the movie - are.

    The characters are sincere - if they lie, they apologize later - and unafraid to say when they are greatly moved -- and when they aren't.

    I think both movies wonderfully portray mother - daughter relationships - and both are quite sympathetic to men as well as women.

    How often do you see movies that show the truth of men's emotions wracked by romantic feelings (rather than solely lust) - sometimes returned and sometimes not? Very seldom.

    In some ways, I prefer Lola to Umbrellas because the plot is more ingenious, the vividly drawn characters more numerous - so there is more to engross one. (On the other hand, by concentrating on just the love for one woman, Umbrellas creates an agony in the viewer that is more powerful than any feeling in Lola).

    Just see it - and you'll see many disparate pieces pull together in a wonderfully satisfying, utterly charming, wonderful romantic tale.

    Lola and Umbrellas make me anxious to see the Young Girls of Rochefort.
    9dbdumonteil

    If you knew your geography...

    ...You would know that,in Chicago,there are no sailors but gangsters.That's what the mother tells her daughter who became friend with an American!This is one of the funniest lines of a wonderful movie.

    There's a tight connection between "Lola" and Demy's following movie "les parapluies de Cherbourg":

    -Lola is an unmarried mother,Genevieve becomes one too. Both are waiting for a lover,in a harbor .(Nantes for Lola,Cherbourg for Genevieve)

    -Marc Michel's character,Roland appears in both movies!In love with Lola,he is rejected.In "les parapluies",his memories come back for a very short while: a flashback displays pictures of Nantes,where Lola's story took place .And he told Genevieve's mother about his long lost love.

    -In "Lola" ,Roland wants to marry the heroine and to become her(not his) son's father.In "les parapluies",he marries Genevieve and becomes her (not his) son's father.

    -Both movies display ordinary people,whose ordinary life is shown with emphasis but not without taste ,as if all this were written in verse.What's the matter if "Lola" is a "normal" movie and "les parapluies " an entirely sung one.Demy's touch makes both winners.

    -Both movies -and it was to continue with "les demoiselles de Rochefort" and the marvelous "Donkey Skin"- favor the scenery:the black and white shots in "Lola" are at least as unreal and as dreamlike as the vivid colors in "les parapluies"(influenced by American musicals of the fifties)

    -Both movies feature families without a father figure:the mother and the daughter I mention above ,we find them back in "les parapluies.." and even later in "les demoiselles de Rochefort".But in this latter work,it's the mother who's an unmarried mother.

    "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" is praised and loved everywhere,but "Lola"'s still crying to be seen.Like Roland ,Lola will come back in another Demy's movie ,made in America: "Model Shop"(1968).Leonard Maltin says that "Demy's eye for LA is striking ,but overall feel to story is ambiguous".It's not on a par with Lola,though.
    8dromasca

    a minuet on the seashore

    There are a few love stories in the movie 'Lola' made in 1961 by Jacques Demy, but also around this movie. Made in 1961, it was the director's first feature film, which a few years later would direct 'Les parapluies de Cherbourg' and then 'Les demoiselles de Rochefort' and contained many of the hallmarks of an original and charming cinematic personality, an elegant romanticism, sincerity and ingenuity. But the story of the film itself has an emotional late episode. The original negatives were lost, and when it came time to recondition and digitize the film, the restorers had to resort to a copy in the archives of British cinema. The operation was performed by director Agnès Varda, the widow of Jacques Demy, a few years after his death. Demy's film, youthful and full of love, has been resuscitated and can now be seen and experienced by the new generations of cinema lovers due to the devotion and professionalism of the other great film director who was his wife.

    The heroes and heroines of the film do not sing yet, as the heroes and heroines of the director's later films would do, but they express their feelings spontaneously and with volubility. That would be a recipe for failure in modern cinema, and Demy was in the minority or even a unique exception among the directors of her time - but with him the charm and the sincerity of the heroes work wonderfully. The story takes place in a French city on the Atlantic coast in the decade after the end of WWII. The heroes belong to the generation whose dreams were cut off by the war: the cabaret singer who tries to keep her honor intact while raising a child and who copntinues to dream about the man who left her, the young man whose war experience changed the course of his life and cut his spirits, the widow who grows her teenager adaughter who is about to become a future Lolita (like Nabukov's novel), the marines soldier from Chicago looking for adventures and memories for a life in the arms of beautiful French women. We are dealing with a whole world, a gallery of characters who live situations that are not very easy but which are approached and described with the lightness and exuberance of a suite of minuets. As in the French baroque 'social dance' with popular origins in the 17th century, the partners in the pairs change from time to time. The classical musical background (mostly Beethoven) envelops the whole atmosphere, and the black and white cinematography reminds that the action takes place in the decade before the film's release.

    The two lead roles are undertaken two wonderful young actors who followed very different career paths. Anouk Aimée creates a role in the tradition of femme fatale cabaret singers embodied over two decades before by Marlene Dietrich. Her partner in the film is Marc Michel, in the role of a disillusioned and disoriented young man, to whom the reunion with the woman who had been his first love seems to give the chance of a new beginning. 'First love is the strongest' could be the motto of the film, but there are also situations in which the first loves are not shared. Marc Michel acts great, he also had a physique that reminded me of Matt Damon half a century later. Where did he disappear after this movie? Examining his filmography we can see that most of his subsequent choices were commercial action movies, increasingly weird ones. An unfulfilled promise in a generation where competition was fierce. His performance in this film remains perhaps the best role of his career, contributing to this elegant film about the 1950s France seen through the prism of three days of romantic encounters by the sea. Only the ending can easily disappoint, the inspiration seems to have abandoned the screenwriter, who does not seem to have found the most suitable final tones to conclude his minuet.
    8mjneu59

    circles of love

    Jacques Demy's effervescent romance is one of the best and most enduring examples of the stylistic explosion since called the French New Wave, but compared to Resnais' often-tortured exposition and Godard's turgid socio-political cul-de-sacs this playful look at the mysteries of first love is alive with an almost irresistible vitality. Demy pursues with tongue-in-cheek determination the idea that life can be a series of happy accidents, weaving several interlocked plot threads into a delicate web of chance and coincidence to illustrate the casual symmetry of life and love. At the heart of the film is a young cabaret dancer waiting (against reason) for her American sailor to return, whose sometimes sad, sometimes comic story is oddly echoed in the lives of everyone around her. It's as if the world were an endless progression of dancers and sailors, destined to mingle and mix in a never-ending attempt to rekindle that first, unforgettable spark of passion.

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    • Trivia
      This, Jacques Demy's first film, is a tribute to Max Ophüls.
    • Quotes

      Roland Cassard: I've thought a lot about you and me. It doesn't matter now. It's not your fault or mine. It's just how it is. We're alone and we stay alone. But what counts is to want something, no matter what it takes. There's a bit of happiness in simply wanting happiness.

    • Connections
      Edited into Il était une fois Michel Legrand (2024)
    • Soundtracks
      7ème Symphonie
      Music by Ludwig van Beethoven (as Beethoven)

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    • Release date
      • March 3, 1961 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Ciné-tamaris (France)
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Un Billet pour Johannesburg
    • Filming locations
      • La Baule, Loire-Atlantique, France(Michel drives into town)
    • Production company
      • Rome Paris Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $103,951
    • Gross worldwide
      • $103,951
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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