Lola (1961 film)

Lola (1961 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Lola


writer = Jacques Demy
starring = Anouk Aimée
Marc Michel
director = Jacques Demy
music = Michel Legrand
Agnès Varda (song "Lola")
cinematography = Raoul Coutard
editing = Anne-Marie Cotret
Monique Teisseire
producer = Georges de Beauregard
Carlo Ponti
distributor = Films Around the World Inc. original release (USA)
WinStar Cinema (USA) (re-release)
released = March 3, 1961
runtime = 90 min
language = French
country= ITA / FRA
budget =
imdb_id = 0055093

"Lola", is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls [cite news| last = Guthmann | first = Edward | title = Film Clips:Lola | publisher = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2002-04-12 | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/12/DD12427.DTL | accessdate = 2006-09-28 ] and is described by Demy as a "musical without music" [ [http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=9942&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13#tabs Reel.com] ] . Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by Demy's widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda.

The names of the film and title character were inspired by Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film "Der blaue Engel", in which Marlene Dietrich played a burlesque performer named "Lola Lola."

tory

"Lola" takes place in the Atlantic coastal city of Nantes, France. A young man, Roland Cassard (Marc Michel, who later reprises the role of Roland in the later Demy film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg") is letting his life waste away until he has a chance encounter with Lola (Aimée), a woman he used to know as a teenager before World War II and who is now a cabaret dancer. Though Roland is quite smitten with her, Lola is preoccupied with her former lover, Michel, who abandoned her and her 7-year old son years before. Also vying for Lola's heart is an American sailor, Frankie (Alan Scott), but Lola does not return his affection.

Struggling for work, Roland gets involved in a diamond-smuggling plot with the local barber. Crossing paths with Roland is a young teenaged girl, Cécile (Annie Dupéroux), whose life in many ways mirrors that of Lola's (whose actual name is Cécile also). In the end, against all odds, Michel returns to Nantes for Lola, apparently very successful and hoping to marry her, just as she is leaving for another job in Marseille and Roland is also leaving town. Their paths do not cross.

Awards and nominations

*1963 BAFTA - Nominated for "Best Film from any Source" and "Best Foreign Actress" for Anouk Aimée.
*2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Won the Special Award (also for the re-release of Demy's second film "La Baie des Anges").

External links

*imdb title|id=0055093|title=Lola
* [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/7635 AV Club Review]

References


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