“An ode to yearning and enchantment — a valentine to France, to beautiful women, to the foolish but delicious notions of romance that we receive from Hollywood.”
Screened in tribute to Anouk Aimée (1932 - 2024)
Anouk Aimée (La Dolce Vita, A Man and a Woman) gives her defining performance as Cécile (aka Lola) a cabaret performer and single mother who entrances young drifter, Roland (Marc Michel). Roland yearns for her to return his love but Lola pines for her husband's return…. Set in Nantes over the span of a few days, with its coincidences and missed chances, Lola conveys the spirit of the French New Wave - and led to Bafta nominations for Best Picture and for Best Actress in a Foreign Film for Aimée.
