Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Lola (1970)

A film that could never be made these days. Twinky (Susan George) is an (almost) 16 year old girl (though acts like she is about 12) who loves the trashy romantic novels of Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson). However, her real secret is that she is in a relationship with the author, a much older man. A relationship that usually involves burning his breakfast and lots of sex.

Twinky's family are naturally not that pleased when they find out but Scott and Twinky get married in Scotland and then move to the U.S., where their relationship is put under strain. Twinky's immature behaviour is no doubt quite tiresome to Scott though the fact she wears miniskirts exclusively probably makes up for it and he undoubtedly loves her. Eventually they begin to drift apart as the age gap does finally tell.

A rather strange film and not that brilliant if we are to be honest though light enough to avoid being too offensive. Bronson spends much of the film on autopilot and you can't wait for Twinky to be old enough to start secondary school. 

The film does have an impressive array of British actors in it including Trevor Howard and Honor Blackman though they are mostly wasted with this material. The film is silly and inconsequential and doesn't really go anywhere but worth watching to see Bronson in a very different role than we are used to seeing him usually.