Synopsis
On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry between them and at the end of the summer, Jean-René wastes no time in joining his beloved in Paris. But there’s trouble in paradise, and a third party swiftly appears to shatter the couple’s idyll: Lolo, Violette’s ultra-possessive 19-year-old son, who is determined to get rid of his mother’s lover, whatever it takes…
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Cast
- Dany BoonJean-René
- Julie DelpyViolette
- Vincent LacosteLolo
- Karin ViardAriane
- René-Alban FleuryPrésentateur film Crédit Rural
- Antoine LounguineLulu
- Christophe VandeveldeGérard
- Elise LarnicolÉlisabeth
- Christophe CanardPatrick
- Nicolas WanczyckiMédecin hôpital
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
Even the most extreme punishments are softened by hilariously neurotic dialogue. Vive la Delpy! - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Lolo has a solid laughs-per-minute rate and enough twists to overcome the occasional screenplay hiccup. - 70
Village Voice
Lolo is a fun, airy movie, but it's also unafraid of complexity. - 67
The Playlist
Lolo features long stretches of perhaps her most accomplished and enjoyable character-comedy yet. But as often with filmmakers for whom a certain register comes almost too easily, Delpy seems impatient with herself and her facility for spiky, verbal sparring and pithy self-deprecating put-downs. - 63
Slant Magazine
A curiously unsentimental director of romantic comedies, Julie Delpy sees romance for the work that it primarily is. - 58
The A.V. Club
The film is at its best when its central trio fumbles around the same circle of hell they’ve obliviously created for themselves, making the best of a situation that is much worse than they could ever imagine. - 50
Variety
Well cast and funny just often enough to recommend. - 50
Movie Nation
Lolo is entirely too familiar, too predictable, a character study in romantic mishaps that’s far less interesting than the name Delpy cooked up for her “little alpine bunny,” a passive, pretty creature worthy of our contempt, at least as Wells envisioned him.
