Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run is less a nostalgic treat than a lesson in how the cinematic lens can honor an unlikely heroine’s physical and mental stamina.
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Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry, Oversound, Hyperallergic, The Baffler, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2023, she received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism. Her second volume of poetry, Francofilaments, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in late 2024; in 2025, her first nonfiction book, Lipstick, will be published as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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