Lola has 20 minutes to find $100,000 or her boyfriend is dead. Weaving together a pumping soundtrack, innovative form, and a series of what-if scenarios, Tom Tykwer's thrilling debut feature will have your heart racing as you sit on the edge of your seat.
In this visually and conceptually impressive film, two-bit criminal Manni botches a delivery for his crime-lord boss, losing $100,000 in the process. With only 20 minutes to come up with the cash, he calls on his girlfriend Lola for help. Lola sprints the streets of Berlin in a series of overlapping scenarios, trying to find the quickest way to save Manni from his boss and himself. [80 min; action, thriller; German with English subtitles]
"I can't rave about this film enough—this is passionate filmmaking at its best. One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen." — Chris Gore, Film Threat
"Tykwer ups the adrenaline with a fast-forward technique that gives instant backgrounders on some of the people Lola flashes by. It's dizzying, almost like having your life flash before your eyes. But it's a rush, just like the movie." — Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"The formula has rarely been done as well as it is in this goofy, audacious, visually stylized omnibus of what-ifs that operates on its own peculiar logic, and powers along with the force of a truck on the Autobahn." — William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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