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Lola Run A Moment to Reflect: Lola (Franka Potente) pauses
briefly during her frantic quest to save her boyfriend in 'Run
Lola Run.'  Tom Tykwer's 'Run Lola Run' mixes Hong Kong action
with European philosophy  By Michelle Goldberg  THE SMASH of the
recent San Francisco Film Festival and the biggest hit of any
release in Germany last year, Run Lola Run is a flashy
Technicolor crowd-pleaser with a metaphysical subtext about the
workings of chance and destiny.  Run Lola Run is so rapid,
romantic and exhilarating that some will surely dismiss it as
the shallow spawn of MTV. But just because the film is
entertaining doesn't mean it isn't art--writer and director Tom
Tykwer has managed to marry the dizzying gloss of American and
Asian action films to the philosophical musings that run through
French and German cinema.  Like a perfect house track, Run Lola
Run is so well constructed that it looks ridiculously simple,
but further contemplation reveals an i