A film by Jacques Demy (1960)
French with English subtitles

A Nantes, une danseuse de cabaret courtisée par un ami d’enfance qui lui, est aimé par une autre, retrouve le père d’un enfant qu’elle a eu jadis. Le monsieur devenu très riche l’épouse. Le premier film de Jacques Demy "Lola" fut un succès et son climat poétique reste intact.

In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens : she’s Lola, now a cabaret dancer. She’s also the devoted single mother of a young son, and she harbors the hope that his father, who deserted her during pregnancy, will return. Roland realizes he’s in love with Lola, and this gives sudden purpose to his life. But how does she feel ? Woven into the story are an American sailor who likes Lola and is kind to her son ; a girl on the eve of her 14th birthday, when all things seem romantic ; the girl’s mother, a lonely widow ; and, an aging woman who misses her son. And who’s the rich guy in the Cadillac ?

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