Lola's traumatic adolescence isn't helped by the fact that her mother,
Anne, continues to treat her as if she were a child. Both women
have one thing in common, a knack of over-complicating their lives with
half-truths and lies. When her boyfriend boasts that he slept with another
girl, Lola declares she also cheated on him. Meanwhile, Anne
continues to see her ex-husband in secret...
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.