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Lola

Lola chronicles the psychological transformation of a woman in the throes of an early mid-life crisis. It is the second installment in a trilogy of features dealing with characters at a crossroads, struggling with their identities. Lola’s middle-class life gets uprooted by a chance meeting with her doppelgänger Sandra, whose life she saves on the street. Slowly, Lola starts to absorb the memories and identity of this woman as a means of coping with her own abusive relationship. On the run from herself, she digs her way into Sandra’s past, hoping to find redemption from her own wasted life.

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Carl Bessai
Director

Lola is Carl Bessai’s second feature film, a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Johnny, which premiered at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival (Special Jury Citation) and went on to festivals in Vancouver, Thessalonika and Calcutta before its theatrical release in Canada. Previous work includes the documentary Out of Orbit, a biography of media guru Marshall McLuhan, which won the Silver Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and Bang!, a Vancouver digital trilogy.

35 mm

95 minutes

Colour

Aspect ratio

1.85

Original version in English

Producer

Laura Lightbown

Director

Carl Bessai

Scriptwriter

Carl Bessai

Director of Photography

John Westheuser

Editing

Manfred Becker

Art Director

Dina Zecchel

Costumes

Kristina Vataja

Music

Vincent Mai

Cast

Sabrina Grdevich

Colm Feore

Joanna Going

Janet Wright

Ian Tracey

Chris William Martin

Gina Chiarelli

Production

Passenger Films Inc.
207 West Hastings St. Suite 712
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 1H7
Canada
(604) 681-7121
(604) 681-7173
ravenwest@uniserve.com

Distribution

Blackwatch Releasing Inc.
180 Bloor St. W. Suite 1102
Toronto Ontario
M5S 2V6
Canada
(416) 934-9419
(416) 934-9420

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