Lolo (film)

Lolo is a 2015 French

Lolo, a moocher who requires his mother's universe to be centered on him, ups his game when nothing seems to break the couple's relationship. He plants a virus in Jean's newly coded software for a bank; running the software on the buyer's system infects their whole network, and Jean-René is arrested.

Jean-René warns Violette that all these mishaps are caused by Lolo and he has found evidence in Lolo's diary. Later, at Lolo's drab art exhibition Ariane's daughter reveals Lolo's string of efforts to sabotage Violette's love life, and Ariane tells Violette. Jean-René clears his name by fixing the trouble and gains tenure in his company.

Violette confronts Lolo with the facts, but Lolo tries to emotionally blackmail her. Violette finally cuts the emotional cord with Lolo and moves in with Jean-René. Lolo finds it hard to adjust to his new life without the presence of his mother. Later Violette realizes Jean-René might be facing the same issue with his daughter Sabine, as she did with her son.

Cast

• Dany Boon as Jean-René
• Julie Delpy as Violette
• Vincent Lacoste as Lolo
• Karin Viard as Ariane
• Elise Larnicol
  as Elisabeth
• Antoine Lounguine as Lulu
• Christophe Vandevelde as Gérard
• Christophe Canard as Patrick
• Rudy Milstein as Paco
• Karl Lagerfeld as himself
• Frédéric Beigbeder as himself
• Ramzy Bedia as the Aston Martin driver
• Georges Corraface as Sakis
• Bertrand Burgalat as Doctor
• Albert Delpy as The visitor

Production

Delpy co-wrote the script, directed and starred in the film as Violette, but she assured Creative Screenwriting that the movie was not autobiographical. She said, "There’s really nothing autobiographical in Lolo. It’s not really personal at all. If anything, the character of Ariane is closer to me than the character of Violette."^[4]

Filming began on 6 October 2014 and took place over two months in Paris, Biarritz and London.^[5][6]

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