Featured Audience Ratings

• Ken S

  
  Beautiful and Boring

• Stefanie C

  
  beautifully shot. the plot had so much potential for intertwining of stories (such as parralels for the ceciles, the blond sailors, etc), but these didn't connect, at least for me. i adore anouk aimee, but i found this character cliched; i much prefer her in 'la dolce… More
  beautifully shot. the plot had so much potential for intertwining of stories (such as parralels for the ceciles, the blond sailors, etc), but these didn't connect, at least for me. i adore anouk aimee, but i found this character cliched; i much prefer her in 'la dolce vita.'

• Jennifer X

  
  Good breakthrough movie by Jacques Demy. Came across a little uneven and the so-called "reality" was punctuated by a series of coincidences, but I can totally sense his style evolving starting with this film.

• Eric B

  
  Not the femme-fatale tale which I expected, "Lola" is a slice of life about a well-meaning cabaret dancer (Anouk Aimee) torn between three men: a visiting American sailor, an old childhood friend and a long-departed husband (whose young son she is raising alone). Meanwhile,… More
  Not the femme-fatale tale which I expected, "Lola" is a slice of life about a well-meaning cabaret dancer (Anouk Aimee) torn between three men: a visiting American sailor, an old childhood friend and a long-departed husband (whose young son she is raising alone). Meanwhile, a pretty 14-year-old girl studies English and rebels against her mother by befriending the sailor, while the above childhood friend contemplates taking a shady trafficking job. The various characters' lives overlap in clever ways, and the storytelling maintains that light, open-ended tone so commonly found in '60s French cinema. Meanwhile, Michel Legrand's frisky score smooths over the rough spots. I did find myself wishing the film was in color -- I rarely have this complaint, but the glamorous women and romantic sights seemed somewhat hobbled by the black-and-white cinematography.