Lola (2022)
Genre: War / Scifi
Duration: 79 minuten
Country:
Ireland / United Kingdom
Directed by: Andrew Legge
Stars: Stefanie Martini, Emma Appleton and Rory Fleck-Byrne
IMDb score:
6,4 (3.798)
Releasedate: 7 April 2023
Lola plot
In England in the early 1940s, the sisters Thomasina and Martha built the machine LOLA that can receive broadcasts from the future. This allows them to listen to unreleased music and place bets that they already know the outcome of. During World War II, the sisters want to use LOLA to help the military secret service. When Thomasina loses herself in their creation, Martha realizes its terrible consequences. The sisters grow further and further apart.
Actors and actresses
Thomasina Hanbury
Martha Hanbury
Lieutenant Sebastien Holloway
Cobcroft
Reginald Watson
Enoch
Rebecca Cavendish
Aryan
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2490 messages
- 1702 votes
The idea of the film is perhaps more of a well-known philosophical argument against the possibility of knowing (predicting) the future than a science fiction cliché: if you know your (own) future, you can also change the future so that you don't change the future. (e.g. if you know that you will be hit by a car tomorrow on your way to work, you can easily prevent it by staying home tomorrow). The film uses this to give an alternate history: by seeing the future on the eve of World War II, two sisters can not only dance to David Bowie, but also provide the British Army with intelligence that will change the course of the war and even the world. is changed after the war, with which, for example, David Bowie disappears again (the future becomes “a memory that fades”).
So far it is clear, but the film manages to turn it into a considerable puzzle or mess: not only are several alternative futures/histories opened up, but the women and men already seem more 21st than 20th century in the 1930s (the women dominate the men and e.g. “Father always said, gender divide is an artificial construct”) and the film itself would be a collection of film fragments from the 1930s and 1940s with a mix of archive footage (documentary), forgery and film in the present (of the war) or in the (faded) future. Not only is time so completely turned upside down, but you also lose what has and has not happened (in the context of the film) ( the ending suggests that the sisters - just like us - will soon be in the future saw that it would end badly for both the world and themselves if Lola were used to change history so that Lola is destroyed). The film is so very postmodern, confusing and in any case special, but I'm not sure whether the film is brilliant or a failed experiment: time will tell.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
The Blair Witch Project, Zelig, Back To The Future, Enigma and finally even [i]The Shining[ /i] were probably the inspiration for this highly overrated mess of what after much consideration I would describe as a comedy drama. In 1941, Thomasina [Emma Appleton] designs a device that allows her to see radio and television broadcasts from the future. She uses that knowledge to influence the course of the war, but in the longer term that turns out to be no blessing. Presented as 'found footage', which soon turns out to make no sense at all. The 'authentic images' are much too sharp, the sound is much too clear (Legge realized at a late stage that sound in home videos was only possible from the 1960s) and the whole concept makes no sense. A promising basic fact quickly gets lost in a swamp of loose ideas and nonsense, including the use of existing archive images in a changed future?!
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14602 messages
- 4555 votes
I can agree with the criticisms of mrklm above, but I saw enough nice ideas to give it a pass. The idea of found footage is not new, but it can work quite well. However, you will soon get that things become a bit unbelievable, certainly that everything will be filmed. Then in the film people can ask themselves that and someone can say that someone likes to film everything, even then. Some moments that are filmed are unbelievable that they could have filmed there. It is also not very consistently implemented when music suddenly sounds over the film. If this really was a found video (including edited archive footage), then that is not really possible, despite the fact that the scene itself was beautiful. Furthermore, the film is quite nice, the overarching idea is fun and they try to do something with it on both an emotional and philosophical level, although it remains somewhat general. But the 80 minutes are quite bearable and I like the idea of the movie. Visually also quite beautiful sometimes. 3.0*.
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