LOL (Laughing Out Loud)

This article is about the French film. For the slang abbreviation, see LOL.

LOL (Laughing Оut Loud)
French theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lisa Azuelos
Produced by	Lisa Azuelos
Written by	Lisa Azuelos Delgado Nans
Starring	Sophie Marceau Christa Theret Jérémy Kapone
Production company	TF1 Films M6 Films Canal+
Distributed by	Pathé
Release dates	27 October 2008 (2008-10-27) (Rome) 4 February 2009 (2009-02-04) (France)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	€9,500,000^[1]
Box office	$60,203,395 ^[2]

LOL (Laughing Out Loud) is a 2008 French comedy film directed by Lisa Azuelos and starring Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret, and Alexandre Astier.^[3] Written by Azuelos and Delgado Nans, the film is about a teenage girl whose life is split between her studies in a prestigious Parisian high school, her secret diary, her friends, boyfriends, her divorced parents, drugs, and sexuality. For her performance in the film, Sophie Marceau won the Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Actress in 2008. Christa Theret received a César Award Nomination for Most Promising Actress in 2010.^[4] The letters "LOL" mean "laughing out loud" in text language.

Plot

Lola (Christa Theret) is a pretty teenage girl living with her mother Anne (Sophie Marceau), who is divorced from Lola's father, Alain (Alexandre Astier). Nicknamed "LOL" by her friends, Lola has been taking her first steps into teenage romance, dating a boy from her class named Arthur (Felix Moati). Following the summer break, Lola's life becomes complicated when Arthur tells her that he cheated on her over the summer and was dating her friend,lvis Lola decides to break things off with him and start seeing his close friend Mael (Jeremy Kapone). Lola's friends seem to enjoy complicating matters even more. Life at home has also become impossible with her mother, who has no idea what "LOL" means. She treats her teenage daughter like a child, wondering whatever happened to her sweet little daughter. Lola likes to play her mother and father against each other for her own advantage, but what she doesn't know is that Anne and Alain have begun dating again on the sly.

Cast

Sophie Marceau as Anne
Christa Theret as Lola
Alexandre Astier as Alain
Jérémy Kapone as Maël
Marion Chabassol as Charlotte
Lou Lesage as Stéphane
Émile Bertherat as Paul-Henri
Félix Moati as Arthur
Louis Sommer as Mehdi
Adèle Choubard as Provence
Jade-Rose Parker as Isabelle de Peyrefitte
Warren Guetta as David Lévy
Jocelyn Quivrin as Lucas
Françoise Fabian as Anne's mother
Christiane Millet as Charlotte's mother
Lise Lamétrie as the CPE
Thaïs Alessandrin as Louise
Tom Invernizzi as Théo
Stéphanie Murat as Cathy
Laurent Bateau as Romain
Valérie Karsenti as Laurence
Pierre Niney as Julien
Jean-Claude Dauphin as the Minister
Olivier Cruveiller as Maël's father
Katia Caballero as Maël's mother
Vincent Jasinskij as Léon
Patty Hannock as Madame Claude, the English teacher
Axel Kiener as the Maths teacher
Étienne Alsama as the Minister's driver
Virginie Lente as Lili
Esmeralda Kroy as Paul-Henri's mother
Vivienne Vernes as Lili's mother
Lucille O'Flanagan-Le Cam as the Lady Di Englishwoman
Sofía Rodríguez as Amaia's mother
Lisa Azuelos as the psychanalyst^[5]

Reviews

A cultural critic writing for The Independent noted that the movie portrayed British culture in the way it is stereotypically imagined by many French to be, showing a small town outside of London where it "never stops raining. The streets are populated by middle-aged women in dowdy, floral dresses carrying garish umbrellas. For dinner, the French teenagers are served white bread, marmalade and pasta – on the same plate."^[6] In France the movie was well received as depicting a generation of youngsters, such as other films in the 80s and the 90s had.

Remake

Main article: LOL (2012 film)

A remake was released in 4 May 2012. The film stars Miley Cyrus, Demi Moore, Ashley Greene, Adam Sevani, and Douglas Booth.^[7]

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