2012 · drama · comedy · romance
LOL
Directed by Lisa Azuelos1h 37m2012
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.
Our read: LOL (2012) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want breezy teen romance with mothers, Paris trips, and happy endings.”
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