LOLA

Lucy3.5

MIFF 2022 - Film #12actors $200sets $150fake film grain $800david bowie song rights $3,600cameras $150someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

davidehrlich3.0

An immensely clever and resourceful micro-budget movie about time-travel in the tradition of “La Jetée,” “Primer,” and last year’s loopy Japanese wonder “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes,” Andrew Legge’s collage-like “LOLA” seamlessly combines authentic World War II-era newsreels together with fictional home videos to create a (very modern) found footage sci-fi story that strives to feel like it could have been made by someone in 1941, or at least by Guy Maddin in 2006.The premise is tantalizing enough to keep your imagination tickled for most of the film’s brisk 79-minute runtime: In 2021, a mystery cache of meticulously edited old celluloid was discovered in the cellar of a Sussex country house that once belonged to Martha and Thomasina Hanbury (played by Stefani Martini and Emma Appleton, respectively). It contained a first-person documentary about two beautiful and brilliant sisters who invented a machine that intercepted radio waves from the future, dubbed the device “LOLA,” and then used their towering, Oscilloscope-like device contraption to watch glimpses of the world to come.With LOLA’s power, Martha and Thomasina fell in love with David Bowie’s music before he was born, obsessed about Stanley Kubrick movies before they were shot, and learned about female empowerment at a time when many young women their age were still half-stuck in the Victorian Era. They also used LOLA to help Britain stay one step ahead of the Nazis, a plan that seems to have backfired so badly that Martha felt compelled to make this film as some kind of cautionary tale for her sister — a plea to stop the madness before they ran out of time. “I want to show you how history can be made, and unmade,” Martha’s words crackle over the phonograph-quality voiceover track, as Legge’s debut cuts back to the days of LOLA’s creation and then rockets forward from there at the speed of a newspaper spinning towards the screen.~this review continues on IndieWire~

fetomarisa3.5

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