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| Greta Gerwig (left) and Joel Kinnaman (right) |
Gerwig is best thing about the pleasantly forgettable "Lola Versus"
With distinctive mannerisms and a crooked smile, Greta Gerwig could easily be screen's next new it girl, too bad the pleasantly slight new rom com "Lola Versus" isn't near as original. Gerwig is the titular character, 29-year old New York City grad student Lola, whose soul mate Luke (the new "Robocop" Joel Kinnaman) dumps her a few weeks before their wedding. With the help of her best friends Alice (Zoe Lister-Jones) and Henry (Hamish Linklater) and others, she has to pick up the pieces and move on with her life as a single woman approaching her thirties. Gerwig is lovely but "Lola Versus" is an otherwise unrevealing, predictable look at relationships that could easily be a junior-grade "Sex and the City" with Lola as another version of Carrie Bradshaw. Lola encounters some oddball characters through her romantic endeavors, the film just doesn't say or do much with them, though it should be noted the film's brave ending is a notch above some in this genre. As for the rest of the cast, the most memorable is Lister-Jones as Lola's best friend, who also is the film's co-screenwriter and likewise gives herself some of the wittiest lines (among them: "this is Yelp's top choice for a club in a dangerous neighborhood"). Swedish actor Kinnaman, on the verge of being a breakout star himself, is handsomely bland as her main squeeze and even nicer is seeing two familiar actors with a "been there done that" appeal, and as Lola parents, the underused Debra Winger and Bill Pullman have that likable quality. Gerwig and the cast have a playful energy that give "Lola Versus" a cotton-candy charm: an enjoyable piece of fluff you won't remember after it's gone.
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