Run Lola Run! I won't say it wasn't fun...

look at editing, camerawork, sound, cinematography/lighting and mis-en-scene.

to what extend is run-lola-run a formalist film?

Run Lola Run! was a formalist film in many ways.

the plot and narrative was formalist because the same series of events happened three times but with different choices and outcomes.

the camerawork is formalist. There are split scenes, which is unrealistic. There is also a part which goes into cartoon which is formalist too.

the editing was very formalist. the way some scenes were repeated exactly the same three times in the film. Also the fact that the film was three stories in one.

At certain points, the editing went into very quick slideshows showing people's future lives, this was totally unconnected to the story and quite abstract and formalist.

the cinematography was formalist in the scene in between deaths.

everything has a red filter on it and it is quite hard to make out what's happening.

the mise-en-scene is pretty naturalistic apart from the fact that alot of things seem to be red. more than would normally be... the bike, the phone, lola's hair.

it is the plot and editing though, that determine Run Lola Run! as a definitively formalist film.

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