Lolo

Worlds collide when Violette , meets Jean Rene. Their mid-age love, both are forty plus, spins out of orbit because of Violette's 20-year-old spoiled brat son, Lolo, who treats Jean Rene as a country bumpkin and wants to stop him from falling in love with his mother.That's what is going on underneath the surface. On the surface, Violette is played by the highly talented, French and American filmmaker, Julie Delpy, and Jean Rene, is played by the highly talented French filmmaker, Dany Boon, try to hook up a romantic bond in the midst of Violette's son antics to ruin Jean Rene's life.This French comedy is a gem considering the level of French cinema talent in front and behind the camera. Delpy best known for the American production "Before Sunrise" with Ethan Hawke, and Boon, best known as the talent in front and behind the camera, in the French movie "Welcome to the Sticks" star in this social rom com, invoking laugh after laugh. Both Violette and Jean Rene, are divorced forty plus something, with children. Yet Violette's young adult child, Lolo, played by Vincent Lacoste, is a 20-year-old tyrant who doesn't like the idea of his doting mother falling in love with an out of town stranger.Jean Rene is from the French city Biarritz, a city close to the Spanish border along the Atlantic Coast. He meets Violette, a Parisian fashion event planner in his home town Biarritz while she's there on vacation with her best friend, Arianne, played by Karin Viard. He is a computer software engineer, who falls in love with her, love at first sight, and travels to Paris, to live and work there, so he could be close to her. Nonetheless, he fails to take in, Violette's son, who is a manipulative brat, who disdains Jean Rene for being a country bumpkin, a hick. So to get rid of him, and send him back to Biarritz, Lolo sets out to destroy Jean Rene's reputation. He puts itching powder on Jean Rene's clothes, and he itches throughout an important biz meeting. Then the brat spikes Jean Rene's drink, at an important fashion social gathering, and he behaves drunk and out of control.For the brat's mother, it might be her last chance to fall in love. She's past 40 with a 20 year old son. She can't find a serious man to love her. It has been one failed relationship after another until she met Jean Rene. For her it's the first serious love fling she had had in years, yet her Oedipus Complex son would have none of it, for Lolo, mommy is all his. On the outside, it seems Lolo is getting along fine with Jean Rene. Yet on the inside, back stabbing, it plots to ruin Jean Rene's life by sabotaging him. For example, he has two young ladies sleep with Jean Rene who has moved in with Violette, then knocked on his mother's bedroom door, and suggests to her to go to the bedroom where Jean Rene is staying. She opens up the door, and sees him sleeping with two young women. She reacts angrily and kicks him out of the apartment. She lets him back in after his explanation. These types of cinema events lead to laughs. It's funny.Nonetheless, Lolo's coup de grace, happens when he sabotages Jean Rene's computer. Presenting his new software, he plugs in a USB, and it ends up short circuiting all of the computers at his place of work. This puts him in hot water with his computer software corporation, regardless, he survives. Kudos goes to the filmmaker Delpy, for the pacing of this movie. Like an adroit comic, she knows when to put the laughs in the movie. She's highly skilled, and one of the leading female filmmakers in the world. Same could be said about Boon, a comic genius, who knows how to draw laughs with a simple facial expression, or with body language. Both Delpy and Boon are huge stars in France, yet only Delpy has etched her niche in the United States. She not only speaks French, but she is also fluent in English. This film, however, is mostly in French, simply enough for an English speaking with a interest in French, to understand.What I liked best about this movie is that it works on different levels. For the big fashion show, it is held inside the Pompidou art nouveau building, on the right bank of the Seine River in Paris, instead of a tradition site like on the Champs Elysee. It seems as the film director Delpy, who also co-wrote Lolo, as well as stars in, had something to say about French culture: out with the old, in with the new. Oh, that's right, Lolo, is about two forty plus adults trying to claw back their lives, after failed marriages. Each with young adults kids.I found the social angle, 40 plus adults trying to cope with their ages, and their turned upside down lives, as interesting as the laughs. Lolo is as much as French rom com, as it is a French social issue, film. Unfortunately, humans don't grow old in splendor like Paris. The older Paris gets, the more spectacular it gets. Not so with humans. I believe the magic number for over the hill is 40, regardless of advertisement and media telling us differently, once 40 is reached, the rest is downhill. And this movie seems to confirm that point.As the great British playwright, George Bernard Shaw, said, "Too bad youth is wasted on the young."This movie, however, shows there is life after 40. One, however, has to look hard to find it, like both of the characters in this French rom com, Violette and Jean Rene.

Really good movie actually. Funny throughout. I purchased a used version and it was in perfect condition. If you like Julie Delpy films you'll like this movie.

It is hilarious. Welcome to Julie and Dany's world. Not for puritan.

love Julie Delpy. at times this was a bit too cliche and the teenager pranks seemed unrealistic but all in all a fun, feel good movie.

Just not that funny. We love Danny Boon but the whole thing was just not that funny. Good effort but not quite there for us.

Great cast, but not at all a feel good comedy.

Dany Boon is one of my favorites.The kid character bothers me ... but I guess that's in the script.Good movie.

It has some funny moments. The end is not the best.

Excellent movie.

J'ai beaucoup aimé ce film. En fait, j'adore Dany Boone. Dans ce film, il est excellent. Seul petit point intéressant à savoir pour les futurs acheteurs, l'accent français est parfois difficile à comprendre.

With a cast that includes amongst others, Karin Viard (who is in a supporting role), Dany Boon, and Julie Delpy (who is also credited as director and writer of “Lolo”), I thought that "Lolo" could be a good film. The cast are all good, especially so Danny Boon who managed to deliver a character that in other actors hand might have come across as too much of a caricature, and as long as the director intended to make a film where the main characters are all very irritating and where I (at least) had no empathy for any of them and basically didn't even like any of them – in fact I disliked all of them immensely. Well if that is what the director intended (at least the irritating characters bit) then she did a good directing job.When I like the cast in a film (in this case it was specifically Karin Viard), I will watch the film with little or no knowledge of a synopsis – preferring to find out what it is about as the story is revealed. So I had hoped that maybe Lola was a character and that that character would turn out to be Karin Viard. Well, the film is predictable, and when I found out who or what Lolo was and the relevance of this fact in the plot of the film which is something that is revealed in the opening minutes of the film, then it was easy to see what the closing minutes of the film would be – and my prediction was correct. The film is that predictable!The premise of the film is unrealistic but to be fair, “Lolo” is not a serious drama, it is light entertainment, it is comedy-drama, but not once did I find myself laughing at any of the situations such was my irritation with all of the characters.Production values are all good with regard to anything you care to mention about the film, as long as one can accept the unrealistic plot and excruciatingly irritating characters (the more I think of the film the worse those characters are becoming in my memory).For anyone who is a fan of Julie Delpy, then you might well totally disagree that this film is one big irritation but for me that is what it was!On the DVD (ASIN: ) you get:“Lolo” ()Scene SelectionSetup:French (language) Dolby Digital 5.1French (language) Dolby Digital 2.0Optional English SubtitlesTrailers

As a fan of Dany Boon he can do little wrong for me. This is not the finest of Dany Boon's films and it doesn't have the same laugh-out-loud scenes of some of his other performances (such as the hilarious Bienvenue chez les ch'tis), but it remains an entertaining way to pass an hour and a half.

Nach "Zwei Tage Paris" mit Adam Goldberg eine weitere Liebeskomödie von und mit Julie Delphy. Ähnliche Triebdynamik. Geht mal ins Narzißtische, mal ist sie klinisch. Themenschwerpunkt "Soziopathologie und narzißtische Gesellschaft" . Der ist nicht i m m e r witzig. Vincent Lacoste ("Lolo") wirkt aber cool."Oft ist es so, dass Komödien auf Gegensätze basieren. Sonst lachen die Leute nicht, es ist nicht lustig. Es ist immer jemand, der aus seiner natürlichen Umgebung rausgenommen wird. Leute, die fehl am Platze sind, bringen uns zum Lachen, weil sie sich dort falsch verhalten, wo sie gar nicht hingehören. Außerdem gibt es immer verschiedene Ebenen in den Filmen, also in den Geschichten und Drehbüchern. Dieser Film erzählt auch von tyrannischen Kindern, von verzogenen, verwöhnten Kindern, von "spoiled kids"." (Dany Boon ("Jean- René"))"Ich hatte viel Spaß am Schreiben. Ich wollte eine Komödie machen, aber schwarz sollte sie sein. Es hätte auch ein Thriller werden können. Aber es sollte eine Komödie über die folgenden Dinge werden: Eine Frau über 40 verliebt sich neu. Eine Mutter, die ihr Leben als Frau für ihren Sohn aufgegeben hat. Und über Soziopathen, darüber, wie sie die Menschen manipulieren und deren Leben zerstören, ohne dass es bemerkt wird." (Julie Delphy ("Violette"))