DIRECTOR: Tom Tykwer
PRODUCER: Stefan Arndt  
PRODUCTION CO: X-Filme Creative Pool
SCREENPLAY: Tom Tykwer
PHOTOGRAPHY: Frank Griebe
EDITOR: Mathile Bonnefoy
MUSIC: ​Tom Tykwer, Johnny Kliimek, Reinhold Heil
WITH: Franka Potente (Lola), Moritz Bleibtreu (Manni), Herbert Knaup (Lola's father), Nina Petri (Frau Hansen), Armin Rohde (Herr Schuster), Hans Paetsch (Narrator)

FESTIVALS: Venice, Sundance

REVIEW

“Tom Tykwer’s acclaimed 1999 film Run Lola Run is a breathless rumination on the nature of fate and choice, with twists and turns at every corner. Lola and Manni are young and hopelessly in love. When a bag with 100,000 Deutsche marks owed to Manni’s shady boss goes missing, they have 20 minutes to come up with the cash, or else. It’s up to Lola to rescue Manni from his desperate fate.
With a brilliantly inventive narrative structure, the film follows the next 20 minutes, during which every possible outcome, decision, and choice is more dangerous than the last. Run Lola Run will have you on the edge of your seat with its heart-stopping pace, kinetic energy, and driving techno track. Franka Potente delivers a tour de force performance, willing to do anything to save the person she loves; from armed robbery to high-speed (bicycle) chases, she breathlessly sprints through the city with an endurance that rivals Ethan Hunt on one of his impossible missions. While infused with elements of the action genre, Run Lola Run boldly strikes new ground, challenging us to consider how the decisions we make can affect the course of our lives and those of the communities we inhabit.”

– TIFF Cinematheque

“Of all the heady-cool, matrix-of-reality, the-digital-future-is-now movies released in 1999, Run Lola Run may have been the 1999iest… The days of our lives now run on digital kinetic energy. Our stories live in multiverses. Our imaginations hum and click to the mutating magic of technological possibility. When we don’t like reality, we reset it. Run Lola Run foresaw all that, incarnating it in a cinematic fable of destiny that felt like a three-part video game that was playing you.”

– Owen Gleibermann, Variety

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Dunedin     
Wednesday, 25 February, 7.30pm

Auckland  
Monday, 09 April, 6.15pm 

Palmerston North     
Wednesday, 18 March, 6.00pm

Canterbury
Monday, 30 March, 7.00pm

Hamilton
Monday, 13 April, 6.30pm

Queenstown  
Tuesday, 28 April, 8.00pm

​Bigger Picture Ōamaru     
Tuesday, 30 June, 7.00pm

Westport
Wednesday, 08 July, 7.00pm

Nelson
Wednesday, 21 October, 6.00pm

​Whanganui  
Monday, 02 November, 7.00pm​

Timaru
​Tuesday, 24 November, 6.30pm
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