Lola Versus

Lola vs. the World is an American film directed by Daryl Wein from 2012 with Greta Gerwig in the lead role.

Action

The 29 -year-old Lola is currently writing her dissertation in French Literature and plans to marry her boyfriend Luke. When Luke lets just sit in front of the wedding, breaks down the world for Lola. Her best friend Alice and her good friend Henry you are in, however. Luke tries to make contact with Lola, but she does not call him back. He meets her before eventually their college and tells her that he is confused. However, Lola rejects him. Some time later, Lola reported in Luke and meets with him to talk. The two sleep together again, but then Lola tells him that it is between them from.

Thus, it is not so alone at night, Lola asks Henry to stay with her. During the night, the two come closer and kiss. Henry tells her that he already longer has feelings for her and wants to take it slow in this situation. Henry and Lola spend the next few days a lot of time together.

In a club Lola and Luke meet again by chance. It learns Lola that Luke now meets with Peggy. Furious tells Lola that she is with Henry. Still angry about the situation leaves Lola with Alice the club and later crosses the middle of the night drunk with Henry on. Lola sleeping in Herny and the two decide again to take it easy.

In a business Lola is addressed by Nick. Since Lola is still confused about her feelings for Henry, she responded to the invitation to dinner and Lola and Nick spend the night together. As Lola in the morning then come back home, Henry is waiting outside her door and is about her adventures far from pleased.

Lola is at her parents' house, a party to which she invites also Luke and Henry. Lola and Luke quoted again and slowly start to be friends. As Lola on another party surprisingly learns that Alice is now with Henry together, her world together again.

Lola needs some time to find himself. It provides successfully completed her dissertation and finally decides to organize a new start in her life to her 30th birthday a picnic in the park. Lola reconciled again with Alice and also includes their peace me Henry. On her birthday party Luke tells her that he wants to start again with Lola from scratch. Since their separation, he has had time to notice that he always wanted to Lola. Lola is touched by Luke 's attempt for a new beginning, but she refuses because she needs time for themselves.

Criticism

"Unfortunately, certainly not ignite all punchlines in wine vignettes: Too often get declamatory dialogues trains, and the occasional penchant for obscenity is not getting the movie really. What sets him apart from Greta Gerwig but saves is an attitude that ' pretends the ambiguous original title, Lola Versus. Because being on the other hand, at some point no longer called for Lola to despair of the world, but to challenge the conventional notions of personal happiness. And in the moment when she first sees uncertainty as a condition of freedom, Lola is suddenly quite himself. Alone, but full of confidence. "

" Greta Gerwig leaves us no choice, we must give all their Lola sympathy - because it gives it a floating detachment, which sets every drama that happens to her in quotation marks. The world becomes the panopticon. Sometimes it seems as if Lola hide their beauty and intelligence deliberately behind a facade of clumsiness and confusion. "

" The style may seem a little too straight; apparently here An Independent style was trimmed slightly to mainstream. But also lack the usual clichés: So none of the men is ridiculed, to upgrade the main female character. No one is how Lola admits blame for their plight. Lola Versus ', ie the movie in the original, Lola against ...' as a non- filled end to an action for divorce. It refers to nothing other than the only way of life that makes you happy in the long term. The other in the independence of the expectations "

At Metacritic, the film reaches a Metascore of 49%. From the experience gained from Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews 34% fall from positive (as of March 2013).

Publication

The film was shown at several film festivals and was launched in the U.S. on 8 June 2012 and in Germany on 13 December 2012 in the cinemas.

2012 in film Screenplay Michael London Film score Ebon Moss-Bachrach
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