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Lola
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NR,1hr 30min
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January 1, 1961
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Fox Lorber
Synopsis: Jacques Demy's auspicious debut -- "a musical without music" set in the port city of Nantes -- stars Anouk Aimée as the title character, a cabaret singer awaiting the return of Michel (Jacques Hardin), her long-absent lover and the father of her child. Michel went to America seven years ago and promised to return when he became rich. In Michel's absence, Lola is being courted by her childhood friend Roland (Marc Michel) and American sailor Frankie (Allan Scott). At some point, it seems that Lola ... Full Synopsis
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Jacques Demy was arguably the greatest romantic of the French New Wave, and Lola was one film in which he proved how vital both sides of that equation were to his vision. While Lola exists within the same workaday France of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut's early films, Raoul Coutard's cinematography allows Demy to find a beauty and poetry in the most ordinary circumstances; Coutard's moving ... Full Review
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Roland
Mme. Desnoyers
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