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In the Dark Reviews

'Run Lola Run' is worth repeating the race

"Run Lola Run" has returned to select theaters for the 25th anniversary of its American release, and rewatching it reminded me of everything that made the independent cinema wave of the 1990s so special.

The period between the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, stands as a unique island of relative serenity within global political history, because with the Cold War of the preceding four-and-a-half decades seemingly resolved, and the "War on Terror" of the 21st century nowhere near the horizon of our collective cultural perception, it felt like...

 

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