Lola

2022

Sci-Fi / War

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 98% · 40 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 3477 3.5K

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Plot summary

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

Director

Andrew Legge Photo
Andrew Legge

Top cast

David Bowie Photo
David Bowie as Self as Ziggy Stardust
Emma Appleton Photo
Emma Appleton as Thomasina
Rory Fleck-Byrne Photo
Rory Fleck-Byrne as Sebastian
Stefanie Martini Photo
Stefanie Martini as Martha
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722.76 MB
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24 fps
1 hr 18 min
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1.45 GB
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English 5.1
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722.2 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 18 min
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1 hr 18 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thestot-1 5 / 10

Light but entertaining.

Love a good time conundrum, though most are a bit of a letdown.This, however, was a bit of fun, and I did appreciate the obvious effort put into both the genuine Newsreel edits and the prop-builds.Not surprisingly, there's a bit of "It's the 40's" pomposity, but that seems to be a common denominator of many period films.A few anachronisms (namely using a camera which was not released until 1952, and which was as noisy as a chaff-cutter!), but overall, a bit of fun.Annoying as they were, the characters fit the found-footage stage play feel quite convincingly, particularly the character of the soldier who discovers where they are.Clever, and not reliant on grandiose effects (which tend to put me off...).Worth a look, when you have a free hour or two.
Reviewed by frukuk 7 / 10

You Really Got Me

Wonderful!We're told it's all going to go wrong -- that is no spoiler -- and it's intriguing to wonder exactly how things will go wrong. (There's a short headline in a newspaper which gives a hint of what might go wrong.)One of the strengths of the screenplay is that everything goes perfectly right -- ignoring one hiccough -- for the first 30 minutes. We need to see just how wonderful their invention is, so we're fully emotionally engaged when things start to go wrong.The wartime footage is used very effectively. Stefanie Martini gives an excellent performance as Martha. And it's strange to think that Spandau Ballet might never have existed.
Reviewed by ArtfulLodger 7 / 10

Microbudget but fun time travel movie

OK not travel but viewing into the future, then making decisions in the present based on future knowledge.

My 7/10 is generous, I know, but that's for what the filmmakers achieved at the budget point and for a compelling idea. Historical future fiction is a weakness of mine, and whilst this isn't Azimov, it manages to get the time travel aspects "right" in-universe. Nothing annoys me more than a film which sets up rules then breaks them.

Another (very different) modest budget British time travel film which gets its timeline "right" which viewers may wish to try is "Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel".

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