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  • Close-up on actor Barbara Sukowa's face; lit by orange and pink light.
  • A woman sits on a stool in front of a microphone at a cabaret.
  • A man in a suit and a woman wearing ornate jewelry and a boa sit together; his hand is on her shoulder and his face is pressed to her forehead.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
LOLA

2:50   9:25

Friday, May 10

(1981) “A wonderfully upfront narrative rendered in garish primary colors, this discursive update of The Blue Angel poses Lola (Sukowa) and the blue-eyed trembling-pillar-of-rectitude building commissioner who helplessly falls for her (Mueller-Stahl) as barometers of the moral bankruptcy at the heart of Germany's post-war 'economic miracle'. Lola (owned, like most of the city, by Mario Adorf's bluffly sleazy building profiteer) threads sinuously through the civic corruption of reconstruction, accruing sufficient manipulative credit to buy a slice of the status quo, seductively scuttling several shades of idealism with the oldest of come-on currencies. Business as usual. The prostitution metaphors come undiluted from early Godard, the poster-art visuals from the magnificent melodramas of Sirk and Minnelli; the provocations are all Fassbinder's own.” ­– Paul Taylor, Time Out. 35mm. Approx. 115 min.

Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy.

Links

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s<br>THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN

Sunday, May 12
6:15*
*ADDED SCREENING

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s<br>LOLA

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
LOLA

Monday, May 13
6:15*
*ADDED SCREENING

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s<br>VERONIKA VOSS

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
VERONIKA VOSS

Tuesday, May 14
6:15*
*ADDED SCREENING

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