Frank & Lola
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| Directed by | Matthew Ross |
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| Written by | Matthew Ross |
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| Cinematography | Eric Koretz |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9,188 |
Frank & Lola is a 2016 noir love story written and directed by Matthew Ross and starring Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Michael Nyqvist, Justin Long, Emmanuelle Devos and Rosanna Arquette.
The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2016. The film was released theatrically and through video on demand on December 9, 2016, by Universal Pictures and Paladin.
The film tells the story Frank (Michael Shannon), a chef in Las Vegas, who meets and falls in love with Lola (Imogen Poots), a mysterious young woman who's new to the city. Betrayal, then forgiveness, soon follow, but the damage has been done. Consumed by obsession, Frank soon finds himself in Paris, intent on exacting revenge on a man from Lola's past.
Writer/director Matthew Ross originally wrote the script nearly a decade before the film was shot. In the original screenplay, instead of Las Vegas the film was set in Brooklyn. He said, "An opportunity came up from producers and financiers who said that if I moved the film to downtown Las Vegas, they would finance it. Initially I was hesitant. I’d been living with the script for eight years at that point, and my experience with Las Vegas was probably pretty typical of most people who don’t live there – hotels on The Strip and staying up all night in casinos. It just didn’t feel real to me, and I wanted these characters to feel real. So in order to make that transition and to translate the movie, I spent more time in Vegas, specifically downtown, to try to get a sense of what it was like... I discovered that there’s a really cool and exciting, vibrant arts and culture scene there that’s just been developing downtown." Ross believes the Vegas setting made for a better film, adding, "Yes, it took eight years to get the film made, but I also got to really refine the script. And if I’d made it earlier, it wouldn’t have been as tight as it was when we shot it. Now I couldn’t imagine it being anywhere else but Vegas – it’s kind of the perfect backdrop for these two lonely, damaged characters in the movie. So it all really worked out perfectly."
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