If Kissing On The Mouth wanted to remind us that sex is something that happens in the real world, LOL wants to show us how and why it doesn't.
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02/01/08
LOL (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 8 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Synopsis: Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life. This up-to-the-second feature intimately explores masculinity in the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Joe Swanberg, C. Mason Wells, Kevin Bewersdorf, Greta Gerwig
Director: Joe Swanberg
Reviews
1 - 8 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Joe Swanberg -- who directed, edited, lensed, co-wrote and played one of the lovelorn characters -- has done wonders with a nothing budget and a personable cast of nonprofessional actors.
08/25/06
Scruffy, loosely structured and piercingly perceptive about the ways in which technology that supposedly brings people together actually keeps them apart.
08/23/06
The inability to connect in a hyper-wired world is old news given fresh voice in this tragicomic indie about the way we live.
08/22/06
Top Critic
The movie is unusually attentive to the ironies of communications technology: Note the subtle but definite awkwardness that creeps into the conversation after a prospective girlfriend casually tells Alex that she only checks her e-mail once a week.
08/22/06
The film has the quality of something tended to by many affectionate hands, a houseplant that blooms slightly more than it sags.
08/17/06
LOL makes a pretty solid case that, despite our being able to reach anybody at any time, most of us still lack the ability to really 'reach' anyone at all.
03/21/06
Swanberg continues to grow as a filmmaker and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.
03/14/06
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