LOLA
- surreal
Neutral, steady, measured drama / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.
Our read · LOLA (2023) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal drama · sci-fi · war entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of LOLA
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a clever found-footage sci-fi about sisters using future signals in WWII.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if time travel paradoxes or mockumentary style feel gimmicky to you.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
Discussion
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