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BSA206 Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run is a 1998 German film directed by Tom Tykwer. It won a lot of awards . It was nominated for a BAFTA foreign language film in 2000. It took second place in the ACCA Best foreign Language film in 1998. In 1998 Franka Potente won best actress at the Bambi Awards for the film. At the Bavarian Film Awards in 1999 it won Best Production. The film won a Bogey Award in 1998. It won in the Brothers Manaki International film festival in 2000. Also in 2000, it won the Chlotrudis Award for Best Cinematography as well as best actress. It won the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign language film in 2000.
Tom Tykwer won the Ernst Lubistsch Award for Run Lola Run in 1999.
It won both the FFCC Award and the Independent Spirit Award for best foreign film in 2000.
In 1999, at the German film Awards it won Audience Award for th German Film of the year, Film Award in gold for outstanding Feature Film, Best Editing, Best Direction and Best Cinematography. It won the Best Film category for German Film Critics Association Awards in 1999. It won the Golden Trailer Most Original category in 1999. It won the Gold German Film category by the Guild of German Art House Cinemas in 1999.  It won an Audience Award for World Cinema at Sundance 1999. As well as all of these, Run Lola Run won and was nominated for many other awards.

I found the mix of many different film techniques quite interesting and necessary to make the movie more interesting and it held my attention much more as a result. It helped add to the pace of the movie and made the story more compelling to watch as it looped over again and again.

There was also a lot of re-occurring themes in Run Lola Run such as the scream and the flash forwards of people Lola passes on the street, showing their lives to come in snapshots. I think this suited the film which was full of pretty complex ideas, wrapped in a very simple plot. These motifs are quite obvious and they draw attention to themselves which makes their importance in the story more interesting and noticeable, forcing the viewer to question their significance much more.

I would recommend this film to someone who is interested in watching a film that is both quite simple and easy to watch but also a bit unconventional and unusual. I think some people might find it a bit tedious to watch and they might find it a bit repetitive at times, however, I enjoyed the film and found it very intense almost all the way through, while still light and comedic. I think that if someone is willing to open their mind to the somewhat unusual storytelling and cinematography, they will find Run Lola Run to be a very enjoyable film.





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