Run Lola Run
As a complement to the colloque organized by Figura (UQAM), we present a series of films that all testify to a way of playing with time that can take the form of uchrony, retrofuturism or even parallel worlds. Cinema, by its very nature, has developed fictions that recompose, destructure and virtualize the time of action and narratives. Several films of the last decades, from Tarantino to Nolan, from Course Lola, course to Kieslowski testify to this fact.
After a failed money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to find 100,000 Deutschmarks.
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is a German director, screenwriter, producer and composer. In 1990, he started directing with the short film Because, and made his first feature film the following year, the dramatic comedy Maria the Maleficent. Distinguishing himself by his visual style, rhythmic and colorful, the German filmmaker signs in 1997 The Dreamers, acclaimed in many festivals. But it is especially the following year, by directing Run, Lola, run, that Tom Tykwer imposes himself worldwide. In 2002, he directed a screenplay by Krzysztof Kieślowski entitled Heaven with Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. He then shot The Perfume, an adaptation of the famous novel by Patrick Süskind, where he directed Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman, among others. In 2009, he directed The International, a thriller for which he also composed the music. He returned to Germany the following year to direct Three (2010), a dramatic film that was in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival. He then joined the Wachowskis with whom he co-wrote and co-directed Cloud Atlas, a very ambitious adaptation of the eponymous novel by David Mitchell.