run, lola, run.....

ok, so.....i bought this film on dvd from half.com because it was german, and my eldest was returning from a german-speaking country and i thought it would be fun to watch with him.....we never got around to watching the film while he was available...so last night my spouse and i watched it by ourselves.....i should say, we enjoyed it greedily without distractions....by some fluke i purchased a fine indie film that is refreshingly simple in its plot and starkly filmed....and ripe with existential questions.....the story opens with lola receiving a frantic phone call from manni, her boyfriend.....she had failed to pick him up after he did a test-run for his mob boss....and he lost the money owed to his boss when he left the shopping bag full of cash under his subway seat.....lola, whose motorbike was stolen earlier in the day, has 20 minutes to come up with the necessary cash and run it to her boyfriend, who is calling from- a yellow phonebooth in some berlin square......so far, so predictable....except that the story line is told three times over, with lola running the basic course through increasingly familiar streets each time, but turning out differently each time......one turns off the dvd player wondering if, like groundhog day, lola ran more times than we were shown.....so perfectly timed was the last go-around of the film.....from the wikipedia writeup i learned that the film is chock-ful of cameos by german celebrities...who knew?...i also learned that the english subtitles lacked many of the nuances important to the plot...ah well....i will fully admit that the original lure of the film was the star, franke potemte....who was in the first 2 bourne films.....i will gladly watch the film again if the notion arises before our german speaking child flies back to europe.....