Run Lola Run (1998) - EN subs

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Lola has to come up with 100,000 marks in the next 20 minutes. If she fails, a Berlin racketeer will kill her boyfriend, a bagman who screwed up and left the loot in the metro. Three sequences show Lola’s three attempts to get the money. The first involves a store robbery, the second a bank robbery. On the third run-through, Lola heads to a casino.

A fairy-tale motif meets the dramatic structure of a video game. The three variations are slightly time-shifted, and the three plot twists have life-altering consequences, including for secondary characters. Playing out the three scenarios as breakneck flash-forward photo stories is part of a post-modern bricolage for which Tom Tykwer tapped all the resources of cinema.