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Lola and the Sea

Lola and the Sea

6,4 /10 (68 Votes)
2019 FR 90 min

Overview

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...

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Release date

11/12/2019

Votes

68

Popularity

1.6

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Status

Released

Original title

Lola vers la mer

Language

FR

Runtime

90 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-04-02

⭐ 7

“Lola”, or “Lionel” as her dad would have it, has returned home uninvited for the wake of her late mother. Bluntly, “Philippe” (Benoît Magimel) wants nothing to do with his offspring and so sends her packing. Despondent, she (Mya Boolaers) waits until he has gone out and then breaks in to take one last look around her home and also, more incidentally, acquires the urn with her mum’s ashes in it. Of course it doesn’t take long for him to realise where they are but after a tussle he agrees that she can accompany him to the familial seaside home where they can spread the ashes over the water. Wha…

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