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Run Lola Run at The Revival House PerthLola (Franka Potente) receives a panicked phone call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), a small-time courier for criminals who has just lost 100,000 Deutsche Marks on the Berlin subway. If he doesn't recover the money in twenty minutes, his boss will K*ll him. Manni's desperate plan is to rob a supermarket, but Lola refuses to let him throw his life away. She has just twenty minutes to somehow obtain 100,000 marks and save him. As the opening credits declare "The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, that's a fact. Everything else is pure theory." What follows is three different versions of Lola's frantic run across Berlin to her father's bank—each iteration altered by split-second timing and random chance, each leading to vastly different outcomes. A collision avoided or not, a safety catch on or off, a word spoken or unheard—these tiny variations cascade into life, death, and everything in between.
Director Tom Tykwer's 1998 breakthrough is a kinetic masterpiece that plays like a video game come to life, complete with multiple attempts, different outcomes, and a pulsing techno heartbeat. The film's visual energy is relentless—split screens, animation sequences, flash-forwards showing the futures of minor characters Lola passes—all propelled by Tykwer's own electronic score that drives the action like a human metronome. Franka Potente, with her flame-red hair and fierce determination, became an instant icon running through Berlin's streets. Frank Griebe's cinematography shifts between film stocks and formats to create visual texture, while the editing creates genuine urgency. The film is simultaneously a thriller, a meditation on chance and determinism, a romance, and a technical exercise in filmmaking possibility. At 81 minutes, it never stops moving—pure cinema as adrenaline rush.
Original format and audio experience of this film faithfully reproduced by The Revival House. Presented in 35mm film unless noted otherwise.
When: Wednesday, May 6th at 7:20PM
Where: The Revival House at the Como Theatre
Rating: M (Medium level violence, Low level coarse language)
Tykwer's kinetic masterpiece runs the same race three times with wildly different results—experience this pulse-pounding thriller in 35mm film.
Presented by: The Revival House Perth
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