Lola (1970 film)

Lola (originally released as Twinky, also known as London Affair) is a 1970 romantic comedy drama film directed by Richard Donner and starring Charles Bronson and Susan George.

Scott, a thirty-eight-year-old writer of pornographic novels has fallen in love with a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl whilst living in a riverside apartment in London.

When Scott finds his visa to remain in Britain has expired, the couple get married in Scotland and move to New York, where his parents live.

Attempting to drag her out of the crowd, Scott inadvertently punches a police officer, is arrested and sentenced to thirty days in jail.

[5] Vane's script has been suggested to be somewhat autobiographical, as it mirrors the author's own marriage to 16 year-old model Sarah Caldwell, whom he married in the mid-1960s when he was 38.

[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "With a frenzied assortment of fashionable tricks (frozen frames, slow motion runs, speeded-up bicycle rides), an insistent pop score, a gratuitous hippy party and yards of exposed teenage thigh, Richard Donner drives what one hopes will be the final nail into the coffin of the Swinging Sixties.

The film is predicated on the irresistible appeal of its nymphet heroine and on the assumption that her first fumblings towards maturity are of riveting psychological interest; but since she is surrounded by a family of cutely kooky characters ... it is hard to take problems seriously, the more so since the unbelievably fey dialogue with which she is saddled ...does little to elucidate the processes of the adolescent mind at work.