The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features our foreign film pick, Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run. Written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu and Herbert Knaup, Run Lola Run won the audience award for world cinema at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/run-lola-run-1999), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1999/06/25/run-lola-run-2/), and Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/032699lola-film-review.html).

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