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Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Writers:
Dominique Sampiero (writer)
Bertrand Tavernier (writer)
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Release Date:
24 November 2004 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
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User Comments:
MUST-SEE for anyone considering foreign adoption ... more (6 total)

Cast

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Jacques Gamblin ... Dr. Pierre Ceyssac
Isabelle Carré ... Géraldine Ceyssac
Bruno Putzulu ... Marco Folio
Lara Guirao ... Annie

Frédéric Pierrot ... Xavier
Maria Pitarresi ... Sandrine Folio
Jean-Yves Roan ... Michel
Séverine Caneele ... Patricia
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus ... Yves Fontaine
Anne Loiret ... Nicole
Philippe Saïd ... Bernard
Vongsa Chea ... Docteur Sim Duong
Pridi Phath ... Monsieur Sokhom
Neary Kol ... Kim Saly
Rithy Panh ... Monsieur Khieu
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Runtime:
France:128 min
Country:
France
Language:
French | English | Italian | Khmer
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification:
Germany:o.Al. | Brazil:12 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud)
Filming Locations:
Cambodia more
Company:
Little Bear more

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13 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
MUST-SEE for anyone considering foreign adoption ..., 3 March 2005
6/10
Author: SONNYK_USA from NYC

"Holy Lola" is not a French version last year's adoption movie "Casa de los babys" by John Sayles, but it does cover some of the similar frustrations that all parents trying to adopt outside the USA have to face.

While 'Casa' dealt with adoption South of the border and how rich American mothers would wait in luxurious accommodations for their future offspring to be awarded to them from the depths of poverty, "Holy Lola" examines the culture of Cambodia and the great need of an entire country whose only real export is the orphaned children created from the wars with the Khmer Rouge.

Director Bertrand Tavernier ("Round Midnight") puts the audience into the scenes with a lot of hand-held camera-work and extremely natural performances by its two lead actors. Cambodia is much hotter than France and naturally when the married couple is alone they spend a lot of time in the nude, especially the wife.

Finding the right child is a humiliating process and any group of children playing suddenly becomes a 'shopping zone' for prospective parents to start wheeling and dealing with the local brokers and the endless bribes that have to be negotiated to get the necessary paperwork to leave the country.

Watchable and informative, but not necessarily entertaining with very little humor (except a smiling baby from time to time).

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