Lola (1961 film)

Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophls and is described by Demy as a musical without music. Anouk Aime starred in the title role. The film was restored and rereleased by Demys widow, French filmmaker Agns Varda.

Lola takes place in the Atlantic coastal city of Nantes, France. A young man, Roland Cassard Marc Michel, who later reprises the role of Roland in the later Demy film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is letting his life waste away until he has a chance encounter with Lola Aime, a woman he used to know as a teenager before World War II and who is now a cabaret dancer. Though Roland is quite smitten with her, Lola is preoccupied with her former lover, Michel, who abandoned her and her sevenyearold son years before. Also vying for Lolas heart is an American sailor, Frankie Alan Scott, whose affection Lola does not return.Struggling for work, Roland gets involved in a diamondsmuggling plot with the local barber. Ccile Annie Duproux, a young teenage girl, crosses paths with Roland her life in many ways mirrors that of Lolas, whose actual name is also Ccile. In the end, Michel returns to Nantes for Lola, apparently very successful and hoping to marry her, just as she is leaving for another job in Marseille. She goes away with Michel as she always said she would, leaving Roland despondent and bitter at the vagaries of love and fortune. ........

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