Lola

The self-aware candor of the actors' efforts converges with Fassbinder's cinema of consciousness, not cynical or knowing cinema but a critical one...

"Lola" is indelibly, ineffably Fassbinder, a demanding, compelling film that virtually imposes a reaction on its viewer. To realize that the intelligence behind these images has been stilled is to be truly saddened.

A bitter, brisk, sometimes abruptly moving satire about the West German economic 'miracle' of the 50's.

Fassbinder is still a filmmaker with a vision, but this time around the vision seems a bit tired and worn.