Hollywood-style time travel tales like to focus their attention on cultural fads and fashions: clothes, music, slang, daily technologies. The ingeniously low-budget Irish sci-fi film LOLA has fun with all of that, but also investigates darker, more global questions like: what if Germany had won World War II?
Pieced together in dazzling 16mm as an imaginary collage of interlocking audio-visual documents from the 1940s, Andrew Legge, directing his debut feature, conjures the lives of two gifted and lively sisters, Thomasina and Martha. Left to their own devices as children, the pair has managed to create a machine that receives media broadcasts from the future. In their personal, cloistered, punk paradise, they embrace the rebellious styles of an age to come – The Kinks, David Bowie – but also discover, when military personnel move in, that history is a dangerous game to toy with. The ultimate question becomes: if mass media can change the world, can cinema miraculously restore it?
Just like the monument to bricolage created by its characters, LOLA is an inspired conceit in the style of Guy Maddin, Woody Allen’s Zelig (1983) and Peter Jackson’s Forgotten Silver (1996). It’s a surreal romp through scratches, glitches and speculative possibilities.
源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/lola
真挚的情感在那个年代的衬托下更加温柔动人。没想到是伪纪录形式，部分构思有点想起《乡锁》但完成度好于《乡锁》。You can not kill 【哔——】和《You really got me》两段最佳。
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前半段特别好，一段窥探未来后被未来艺术装点的时光，尤其是两位女演员在黑白做旧胶片的风格之下显得格外迷人。后半段转到改变二战历史后就显得比较平庸了，碍于伪纪录片的选择也无法走向历史被改变的方向。最后的照片确实会让人第一时间想到《闪灵》。 3.5
架空历史英伦第三帝国版 David Bowie 金曲，结局又见《闪灵》致敬。概念想法很好，故事细节过于随便，除了那些加工历史新闻画面外，伪纪录形式的时代感还原不太到位
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