LOLA ET SES FRERES/ LOLA AND HER BROTHERS
France, 2018, 105 minutes, Colour.
Ludivine Sagnier, Jose Garcia, Jean-Paul? Rouve.
Directed by Jean-Paul? Rouve.
Lola and Her Brothers could be described as a typical French family drama. Ludivine Sagnier plays Lola and distinguished French actors, José Garcia and Jean-Paul? Rouve (also the director of the film) play the brothers.
Obviously, there are going to be a lot of conflicts, responsibility and irresponsibility is, workplace crises, a wedding and upsets. While Lola is meant to be something of an anchor in the family for her brothers, she herself has relationship issues – and pregnancy.
French audiences do like this kind of family drama – and it is with those who do like this kind of French family drama.
1. The title, the focus on Lola, her two brothers? Family, family clashes, reconciliations?
2. The French settings, homes and apartments, law courts, building sites and companies, opticians? The musical score?
3. Lola, her age in comparison with her brothers, her legal work, not married, difficult divorce cases and angers, meetings Zoher, the attraction, together, inviting her brothers, their reactions? The meetings with Pierre, his financial difficulties, his son, the arrangements for Benoit’s wedding? Helping his wife after her husband’s obtuse nurse? Going to the doctor, the tests, and not being able to become pregnant, the discussions with So hair?
4. Pierre, the demolition of the buildings, his partner, the urgency to go to his brother’s wedding, his son and the suit, no shoes, the hold-up on the toll, arriving late? The wedding, the dinner, his forgetting is sister-in-law’s name? Referring to the previous weddings? The issue of his business, the cracks in the building, evacuations? Discussions with the boss, his being sacked? His personal life, his former wife, his son going to university? Meetings, trying to reconcile with his sister-in-law? His meeting his former friend, gaining some respect for him, the new job?
5. Meanwhile, the optician, fussy, previous marriages, his work, machinery, the colour for lenses? His assistant? Marrying again, upset at the speeches at the wedding? Obtuse in his manner and comprehension, his wife getting upset, trying to win her back? The collaboration with Pierre? His wife pregnant? The birth?
6. Pierre’s son, young, intellectual, university, reading, decision to leave, motivations?
7. The conflicts, the resolutions? Lola and her being pregnant, her sister-in-law and the two children, time passing, everybody meeting at the end – and harmony?
