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Summary:

Lola awaits the return of her lover who left her with child seven years earlier. In the meantime, she works nights as a cabaret dancer and dreams of a reunion with her long lost love.

Contributors:

Demy, Jacques , film director, screenwriter

Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007 , film producer

Beauregard, Georges de , film producer

Aimée, Anouk, 1932- , actor

Michel, Marc, 1929-2016 , actor

Harden, Jacques , actor

Scott, Alan, 1922- , actor

Labourdette, Elina, 1919-2014 , actor

Lion, Margo, 1899-1989 , actor

Marchand, Corinne, 1931- or 1937- , actor

Blank, Dorothée , actor

Coutard, Raoul , director of photography

Evein, Bernard, 1929-2006 , production designer

Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019 , composer

Cotret, Anne-Marie , film editor

Teisseire, M. (Monique) , film editor

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019 , interviewer, interviewee, composer

Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948- , writer of supplementary textual content

Rafferty, Terrence , writer of supplementary textual content

Ridley, Jim , writer of supplementary textual content

Rosenbaum, Jonathan , writer of supplementary textual content

Duggan, Anne E., 1967- , writer of supplementary textual content

Andrew, Geoff, 1954- , writer of supplementary textual content

Berthomé, Jean-Pierre , writer of supplementary textual content

Janus Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Ciné Tamaris (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Rome Paris Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

French
English

Language Notes:

In French with English subtitles.

Main Work:

Lola (Motion picture : 1961)

Included Works:

Horizons morts

Sabotier du Val du Loire

Ars

Luxure

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 713

Criterion collection; [volume] 714

Essential Jacques Demy

Subjects:

Single mothers — France — Nantes — Drama

Women dancers — France — Nantes — Drama

Singers — France — Nantes — Drama

Man-woman relationships — France — Drama

France — Social life and customs — Drama

Single mothers

Women dancers

Singers

Man-woman relationships

Manners and customs

France

France — Nantes

Genres:

Feature films

French language films

Foreign language films

Drama

System Details:

DVD: NTSC, region 1, monaural, 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Performers:

Cast: Anouk Aimèe (Lola), Marc Michel (Roland), Jacques Harden (Michel), Alan Scott (Frankie), Elina Labourdette (Mrs. Desnoyers), Margo Lion (Jeanne), Annie Dupéroux, Catherine Lutz, Corinne Marchand, Yvette Anziani, Dorothée Blank, Isabelle Lunghini, Annick Noël, Ginette Valton, Anne Zamire, Jacques Goasguen, Babette Bardin, Jacques Lebreton.

Production Credits:

Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; production designer, Bernard Evein ; music, Michel Legrand ; editors, Anne-Marie Cotret, Monique Teisseire.

General Notes:

Originally released as motion picture in 1961.
This 2012 restoration version released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection.
Special features: Anouk Aimée (2012 interview by Agnès Varda with the actor about playing Lola); Lola's song (2008 interview; filmmaker Agnès Varda shares the story behind the song she wrote for Lola, "C'est moi, c'est Lola"); Restoration demonstration; Les horizons morts (1951) (short by Demy about a young man suffering from a broken heart); Le sabotier du Val du Loire (1956) (short by Demy documents a week in the life of a clog maker in Loire Valley); Ars (1959) (short by Demy tells the story of Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney, the strict and pious pastor of the village of Ars); La luxure (1962) (short by Demy made for The seven deadly sins, on his memories of growing up in Nantes); Trailer. Booklet features essays by critics Ginette Vincendeau, Terrence Rafferty, Jim Ridley, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anne E. Duggan, and Geoff Andrew, and a postscript by Jean-Pierre Berthomé.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (88 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; Dolby

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

LOL 1961 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604658606
1604658606

OCLC Numbers:

1053514624
913563811 [Invalid]