Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music".Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by Demy's widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
The names of the film and title character were inspired by Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film Der blaue Engel, in which Marlene Dietrich played a burlesque performer named "Lola Lola."
Lola takes place in the Atlantic coastal city of Nantes, France. A young man, Roland Cassard (Marc Michel, who later reprises the role of Roland in the later Demy film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) is letting his life waste away until he has a chance encounter with Lola (Aimée), a woman he used to know as a teenager before World War II and who is now a cabaret dancer. Though Roland is quite smitten with her, Lola is preoccupied with her former lover, Michel, who abandoned her and her seven-year-old son years before. Also vying for Lola's heart is an American sailor, Frankie (Alan Scott), whose affection Lola does not return.
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Miguel makes the journey that his grandfather cannot make because he is locked up by his own family. The mission is very simple, go to a funeral and leave an army jacket on the grave of an old man, a friend of his grandfather. Miguel, accompanied by Lola and Guillermo, leaves that island of cement that is the Nazareth neighborhood. He wanders the outskirts of Valencia, looking for a cemetery and faces a deserted city
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Black Hat Lane - a part of town where eras collide and the life of a street performer is a bygone tradition. Set in this world; 'Lola' is the story of three mimes, the tortured Lola, her abusive partner Roscoe and the timid-yet-charming Emilio and his desperate battle to banish his cowardly conscience and save Lola from her torment. Silent in style and black and white in vision - Lola will capture your imagination as it combines elements such as acid western, psychological drama and black comedy to underpin the core issues of domestic violence, alienation and interpersonal demons in one breath taking silent sweep.
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Marcel wants to be like the film-noir detectives he so admires: one that hates the world and who the world hates back, a lonesome hero that doesn't give a damn, a person that walks into mystery heads on. Unfortunately for Marcel, he is a shy college student and film noirs never prepared him for what he'll be facing in college.
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Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore is a dynamic, handsome, and brilliant young man who also happens to be homeless. After almost hitting Cassandra in his dilapidated VW bus, he becomes fascinated by the gothic cemetery waif and attempts to befriend her. A sequence of events results in Cass getting lost. Jorge and Shore flee the cemetery in a stolen hearse to find Cassandra before her abusive step-father does. All paths lead to Yermo - the site of a roadside diner and a feisty but compassionate transvestite waitress named Lola.
Keywords: cemetery, funeral, manic-depression, transvestite, yermo
Sometimes you have to embrace death in order to embrace life.
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A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, a wild yet caring transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, but instead finds out she is pregnant by Lola. Manuela becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired, by helping Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's lover. However, Agrado soon takes over when Manuela must care for Hermana Rosa's risky pregnancy. With echos of Lorca, "All About Eve," and "Streetcar Named Desire," the mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship.
Keywords: absent-father, actor, actress, aids, airport, apartment, assault, audience, autograph, baby
Part of every woman is a mother/actress/saint/sinner. And part of every man is a woman. (English trailer)
Manuela: I'm not a whore. I've been fucked around a lot, but I'm not a whore.
Manuela: You are not a human being , , Lola. You are an epidemic.
Manuela: How could anyone act so macho with a pair of tits like that?
Manuela: Do you have any alcohol?::Agrado: No, I drank it all last night.::Manuela: I meant for disinfecting.
Agrado: Just don't disappear again. I like to say good-bye to the people I love, even if it's only to cry my eyes out, bitch.
Manuela: Women will do anything to avoid being alone.::Sister María Rosa Sanz: Women are more tolerant, but that's good.
Huma Rojo: But can you act?::Manuela: I can lie very well, and I'm used to improvising.
Agrado: Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.
Agrado: How could I own a real Chanel when there is so much poverty in the world?
Huma Rojo: There are people who think that children are made in a day. But it takes a long time, a very long time. That's why it's so awful to see your child's blood on the ground. A stream that flows for a minute yet costs us years. When I found my son, he was lying in the middle of the street. I soaked my hands in his blood and I licked them. Because it was mine. Animals lick their young, don't they? I'm not disgusted by my son. You don't know what it's like. In a monstrance of glass and topaz. I would put the earth soaked by his blood.