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Composer Michel Legrand’s first collaboration with filmmaker Jacques Demy (a few years before their The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort) is a dream-like account of love lost and found. It’s not a musical but has the enchanted tone of one. Anouk Aimée plays a cabaret dancer who pines for the man who left her and their young child years before. Lola is dedicated to Max Ophüls but also evokes von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Stunning b&w scope cinematography by Raoul Coutard. “Among the most neglected major works of the French New Wave.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 88 min.