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Lola (1961) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jacques Demy

Written By:
Jacques Demy

Actors:
Anouk Aimee ..... Lola
Cécile ..... Roland Cassard
Marc Michel ..... Michel
Jacques Harden ..... Frankie
Alan Scott ..... Madame Desnoyers
Elina Labourdette ..... Jeanne, Michel's Mother
Margo Lion ..... Cécile Desnoyers
Annie Duperoux ..... Claire, the bar owner
Catherine Lutz ..... Daisy
Corinne Marchand ..... Madame Frédérique
Yvette Anziani ..... Dolly
Dorothée Blanck ..... Nelly
Isabelle Lunghini ..... Ellen
Annick Noël ..... Hair Stylist's Mistress
Ginette Valton ..... Maggie
Anne Zamire

Synopsis:

In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola, now a cabaret dancer. She's also the devoted single mother of a young son, and she harbors the hope that his father, who deserted her during pregnancy, will return. Roland realizes he's in love with Lola, and this gives sudden purpose to his life. But how does she feel? Woven into the story are an American sailor who likes Lola and is kind to her son; a girl on the eve of her 14th birthday, when all things seem romantic; the girl's mother, a lonely widow; and, an aging woman who misses her son. And who's the rich guy in the Cadillac?

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 seven-year-old son years before. Also vying for Lola's heart is an American sailor, Frankie (Alan Scott), whose affection Lola does not return. Struggling for work, Roland gets involved in a diamond-smuggling plot with the local barber. Cécile (Annie Dupéroux), a young teenage girl, crosses paths with Roland; her life in many ways mirrors that of Lola's, whose actual name is also Cécile. In the end, Michel returns to Nantes for Lola, apparently very successful and hoping to marry her, just as she is leaving for another job in Marseille. She goes away with Michel (as she always said she would), leaving Roland despondent and bitter at the vagaries of love and fortune.

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