LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
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| Directed by | Lisa Azuelos |
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| Music by | Jean-Philippe Verdin |
| Cinematography | Nathaniel Aron |
| Edited by | Stan Collet |
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| Distributed by | Pathé |
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98 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €9.5 million |
| Box office | $60.2 million |
LOL (Laughing Out Loud) is a 2008 French comedy film directed by Lisa Azuelos and starring Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret, and Alexandre Astier. Written by Azuelos and Delgado Nans, the film is about a teenage girl whose life is split between her studies in a prestigious Parisian high school, her secret diary, her friends, boyfriends, her divorced parents, drugs, and sexuality. For her performance in the film, Sophie Marceau won the Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Actress in 2008. Christa Theret received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress in 2010. The letters "LOL" mean "laughing out loud" in text language.
Lola (Christa Theret) is a teenage girl living with her mother Anne (Sophie Marceau), who is divorced from Lola's father, Alain (Alexandre Astier). Nicknamed lol by her friends, Lola has been taking her first steps into teenage romance, dating a boy from her class named Arthur (Felix Moati). Following the summer break, Lola's life becomes complicated when Arthur tells her that he cheated on her over the summer and was dating her friend, Lvis. Lola decides to break things off with him and start seeing his close friend, Maël (Jeremy Kapone). Lola's friends seem to enjoy complicating matters even more. But little did she know that Life at home has also become impossible with her mother, who has no idea what "LOL" means. She treats her teenage daughter like a child, and lol is tired of it while her mother is wondering whatever happened to her sweet little daughter. Lola attempts to play her mother and father against each other for her own advantage, but what she doesn't know is that Anne and Alain have begun dating again on the sly. After a class trip to England her relationship with her mother comes crumbling down.
A cultural critic writing for The Independent noted that the film portrayed British culture in the way it is stereotypically imagined by many French to be, showing a small town outside London where it "never stops raining. The streets are populated by middle-aged women in dowdy, floral dresses carrying garish umbrellas. For dinner, the French teenagers are served white bread, marmalade and pasta – on the same plate." In France the film was well received as depicting a generation of youngsters, such as other films in the 80s and the 90s had.
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