Lola versus the rest of the world
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lola versus the rest of the world |
| Original title | Lola Versus |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daryl wine |
| script |
Daryl Wein Zoe Lister Jones |
| production |
Michael London Jocelyn Hayes Simpson Janice Williams |
| music | Fall On Your Sword |
| camera | Jacob yours |
| cut |
Suzy Elmiger Susan Littenberg |
| occupation | |
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Lola Against the Rest of the World is a 2012 American film directed by Daryl Wein and starring Greta Gerwig .
action
29-year-old Lola is currently writing her dissertation in French literature and is planning to marry her boyfriend Luke. When Luke lets her sit shortly before the wedding, the world collapses for Lola. However, her best friend Alice and her good friend Henry stand by her. Luke tries to contact Lola, but she doesn't call him back. He eventually meets her outside her college and tells her he's confused. However, Lola rejects him. Some time later, Lola calls Luke and meets with him to talk. The two sleep together again, but Lola tells him afterwards that it is over between them.
So that she is not so alone at night, Lola asks Henry to stay with her for the night. In the night the two get closer and kiss. Henry tells her that he has had feelings for her for a long time and that he would like to take things slowly in this situation. Henry and Lola spend a lot of time together over the next few days.
Lola and Luke meet again by chance in a club. Lola learns that Luke is now meeting Peggy. Angry about this, Lola tells that she is with Henry. Still angry about the situation, Lola leaves the club with Alice and later shows up at Henry's drunk in the middle of the night. Lola sleeps with Herny and the two decide again to take it easy.
Nick approaches Lola in a shop. Still confused about how she feels about Henry, Lola accepts the invitation to dinner and Lola and Nick spend the night together. When Lola returns home the morning after, Henry is waiting at her door and is anything but happy about her adventure.
Lola gives a party at her parents' house, to which she also invites Luke and Henry. Lola and Luke are slowly getting along again and are starting to be friends. When Lola surprisingly learns at another party that Alice is now with Henry, her world collapses again.
Lola needs some time to find herself. She successfully completes her dissertation and finally decides to have a picnic in the park for her 30th birthday as a new start in her life. Lola is reconciled with Alice again and also makes her peace with Henry. At her birthday party, Luke tells her that he wants to start all over again with Lola. Since their split, he's had the time to realize that he always wanted Lola. Lola is touched by Lukes' attempt to start over, but she rejects him because she still needs some time for herself.
criticism
“Unfortunately, not all punch lines in Wein's vignettes ignite: Too often dialogues take on declamatory traits, and the film doesn't really get the hang of it. What saves him apart from Greta Gerwig, however, is an attitude that the ambiguous original title 'Lola Versus' suggests. Because to be against it, for Lola at some point no longer means despairing of the world, but rather questioning the conventional ideas of personal happiness. And the moment she first understands uncertainty as a condition of freedom, Lola is suddenly completely with herself. Alone, but full of confidence. "
“Greta Gerwig leaves us no choice, we have to give her Lola all the sympathy - because she gives her a floating detachment that puts every drama that happens to her in quotation marks. The world becomes a panopticon. Sometimes it seems like Lola is deliberately hiding her beauty and intelligence behind a facade of clumsiness and confusion. "
“The design may seem a bit too straightforward; apparently an independent style has been trimmed a bit to mainstream. There are also no common clichés: none of the men are ridiculed in order to enhance the female main character. As Lola admits, nobody is to blame for her misery. 'Lola Versus', the film is called in the original, 'Lola against ...' like an incomplete divorce petition. What is meant by this is nothing else than the only path in life that makes you happy in the long term: independence from the expectations of others. "
At Metacritic , the film achieved a Metascore of 49%. 34% of the film reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes are positive (as of March 2013).
publication
The film was shown at several film festivals and opened in cinemas in the USA on June 8, 2012 and in Germany on December 13, 2012.
Web links
- Lola Versus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Spiegel Online: Lola against the rest of the world
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: A slut, but not a bad person
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Away with expectations
- ↑ Reviews at Metacritic
- ↑ Lola against the rest of the world at Rotten Tomatoes (English)