Lola Versus (2012)

Dumped by her boyfriend just three weeks before their wedding, Lola enlists her close friends for a series of adventures she hopes will help her come to terms with approaching 30 as a single woman.

Director:

Daryl Wein

Writers:

Daryl Wein (screenplay), Zoe Lister Jones (screenplay)

Stars:

Greta Gerwig, Joel Kinnaman, Zoe Lister Jones

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Greta Gerwig	...	Lola
Joel Kinnaman	...	Luke
Zoe Lister Jones	...	Alice
Hamish Linklater	...	Henry
Bill Pullman	...	Lenny
Debra Winger	...	Robin
Maria Dizzia	...	Woman Subletter
Jonathan Sale	...	Fantasy Bar Guy
Ebon Moss-Bachrach	...	Nick
Adriane Lenox	...	Professor
Ray Iannicelli	...	Man at Restaurant
Kathryn Kates	...	Woman at Restaurant
Jay Pharoah	...	Randy
Cheyenne Jackson	...	Roger
Kena Onyenjekwe	...	Henry's Band

Storyline

Lola (Greta Gerwig) is 29 years-old and is happily engaged to her perfect man, Luke (Joel Kinnaman). But just three weeks before her big day, Luke calls it off, and Lola is forced to re-group as she cancels the wedding. While struggling to find happiness through sexual flings with her best friend, first dates with strangers, and attempts at re-connecting with her ex-fiancé, Lola realizes she's going to have to find herself first before she can find love and happiness.

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Plot Keywords:

two word title | name in title | versus in title | character name in title

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Taglines:

Lola vs. Sex, Love, Lola, The World.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, sexuality and drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 June 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Lola

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$31,815 (USA) (8 June 2012)

Gross:

$251,913 (USA) (6 July 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Groundswell Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Orlando Bloom was originally cast in the lead role but dropped out before filming began.

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Soundtracks

"Alley Cat"
Performed by The Ettes
Written by Jeremy Cohen, Lindsay Hames and Maria Silver
By arrangement with The Royalty Network, Inc.

User Reviews

No need to run, Lola

I may understand why Lola Versus is being so underrated, because it's an atypical romantic comedy. A simple, subtle and sometimes naive one when showing a character struggling to repair herself after a traumatic breakup 3 weeks before her wedding with the man she planned to build her entire life with.

So it's completely normal go thru hard times after a situation like that, and always find ourselves in between moments of euphoria and distress, typical symptoms of the dysthymia suffered by any one after the end of a relationship. Her friends, Alice (Zoe Lister Jones) and Henry (Hammish Linklater), will do anything to support her and show other perspectives about the new situation, but every single help seems not enough and will be going thru all the pain that she will finally get self redemption.

After the subtlety of (500) Days Of Summer (2009), people rediscovered what a good romantic comedy means. Lola Versus does not have the same warm appeal or a character that arouses so much compassion like Marc Webb's movie, but it follows the same style when showing human suffering in its purest way, and also the mistakes and flaws attached when overcoming a great disappointment in life. We all had Lola's days and have already been versus the world too at least once in our lives, and this movie couldn't be any more sincere when simply showing all those mixed feelings when you have been caught by surprise like she has. It's easy fall for sympathy for the character and all her anxiety, anguish, confusion and that constant heart pain that is never physically felt but is there somewhere.

It's an uncommon movie and completely different from what we usually see, that's why it may seems uninspired or out of the line, but only who knows what it takes to get the pieces together may understand all the process Lola is going thru, her recovering, her back and forth, and griefs drowned into alcohol and meaningless sex.

A motivating, heartwarming and inspiring movie that develops itself together with the character's step by step progress, with an amazing soundtrack, great dialogs and charismatic characters that are unintentionally funny. For sure is not a movie that will make people talk a lot about or fully understand it at first, but certainly a faithful reproduction of the inner pain, confusion and how people can be so foolish wasting energy trying to repair something that only time heals.

Better appreciated by those who someday were against the world too and exactly know how Lola feels.