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Ugh. Thanks for the info anyway.
Yes, but I'm really interested in owning a DVD copy.
The boss probably WILL notice eventually and be mad at Manni. Fortunately Lola can loan him some cash to make it up.
The UK rating is actually stricter; Americans under 17 can see an R-rated movie if they're with an adult.
"Yes, it is weird. First you see her receive communion, which is mostly a Roman-Catholic practice."
No - Protestants also have communion. The largest religious group in Berlin are Lutherans, so it's just as likely (if not moreso) that she is converting to that faith.
Discussed in this long thread: https://moviechat.org/tt0130827/Run-Lola-Run/58c777ca93cef4080d7c9252/Which-is-the-real-ending
Another film along these lines is Le Battement d'ailes du papillon (Happenstance).
Well realistically, how else was he going to break the curse? A woman was not going to voluntarily fall for him in his beastly state.
Lack of story? This version adheres more closely to the actual legend than the Disney one...
They're not all in the first hour. The scene in the café is very late in the movie.
Throughout France (and most of Europe), Stop signs say "STOP".
In Québec, though, they say "ARRÊT".
Yes, the country is supposed to be understood as a former French colony. Among other details, it uses CFA francs, which none of the former Belgian colonies does.
It's her home. People can become very attached to where they live, to an irrational degree. They may fear the sense of dislocation coming from moving.
From the DVD extras, it appears that it wasn't supposed to be a single country in particular. It is partly inspired by events in the Ivory Coast (where many French settlers had plantations) in the 1990s, when the country fell into instability after the death of its longtime dictator. The inspiration for the "Boxeur" is Thomas Sankara, who ruled Burkina Faso in the 1980s before being assassinated. The filming itself took place in Cameroon.