洛拉电台

Hollywood-style time travel tales often focus on cultural fads and fashions such as clothes, music, slang, and daily technologies, and the ingeniously low-budget Irish sci-fi film LOLA embraces these elements while also delving into darker, more global questions like what if Germany had won World War II? Directed by Andrew Legge in his debut feature, the film is pieced together in dazzling 16mm as an imaginary collage of interlocking audio-visual documents from the 1940s, conjuring the lives of two gifted and lively sisters, Thomasina and Martha. Left to their own devices as children, they manage to create a machine that receives media broadcasts from the future. In their personal, cloistered, punk paradise, they embrace the rebellious styles of an age to come – The Kinks, David Bowie – but also discover that history is a dangerous game to toy with when military personnel move in. The ultimate question becomes: if mass media can change the world, can cinema miraculously restore it? Just like the monument to bricolage created by its characters, LOLA is an inspired conceit in the style of Guy Maddin, Woody Allen’s Zelig (1983), and Peter Jackson’s Forgotten Silver (1996), offering a surreal romp through scratches, glitches, and speculative possibilities.