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Stunning photography indeed!

posted 18 years ago by E_D_N
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One of the most beautiful films ever.

Whenever director JACQUES DEMY and cinematographer RAOUL COUTARD worked together, the results were magical -- LA BAIE DES ANGES (BAY OF ANGELS) and LOLA are both symphonies in black and white as I like to put it...

I mean, look at the light falling in, the contrast between blacs and whites...

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[–] overseer-3 17 years ago

I think they used some tinting on the DVD. I kept seeing blues and yellows indicative of some re-encoding using tints. 10 to 1 those tints were not in the original film.

[–] BwlBoy 16 years ago

It's certainly far more accessible than the challenging, and in my opinion, grossly overrated The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

[–] geffers 15 years ago

I think if I'd seen this on tv in the old pan-and-scan days, I might not have liked it very much. It's very much needing the widescreen I think - you get a taste for how the film might have looked in its pre-restored days on one of the short documentary pieces on the DVD. As it is now, it's very beautiful, and I enjoyed watching it for the second time.

I do like the linking to Umbrellas, Roland is much more agreeable here as a character, rather unlovable in the musical. I saw Umbrellas first - but of course it harps back to Lola with that place in Nantes, and Roland's theme converted into various songs.

[–] Goodbye_Ruby_Tuesday 15 years ago

Lola also features one of the most romantic uses of slow-motion ever (and in my opinion, the most romantic scene of the movie), when Franky and the teenager Cecile jump off the ride and run around the carnival. It features a sort of nostalgia and sentimentality that's been imitated in numerous GAP commercials but never matched by Demy's unabashedly romantic heart.

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[–] zurichpoet 15 years ago

GLORIOUS! A true soulful tart of a movie.