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Stepping outside of the United States a little, in his statement about the film (for Sony Pictures), Tykwer comments that he appreciated the feel of the music in Once Upon a Time in the Wild West (1968), an Italian film from director Francesco Degli Espinosa. Tykwer also makes references to German culture. Franz Paetsch, a very famous German children’s storyteller, is used as a narrator, providing a voice that anyone who was once a child in Germany could recognize. Also, two quotes from famous German footballer, Sepp Herberger are used in the film: "The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory,” and "After the game is before the game."

As film critic Charles Taylor put it, the first Herbeger quote establishes the rules of the game for the film. However, like some other American critics, Taylor feels that Tykwer’s direction focuses so heavily on the pace of the film that he doesn’t leave room for the depth of characterization that Bleibtreu and Potente deserve, preferring to give Potente’s performance as Lola credit for holding the film together. North American film critics have further suggested that Lola rennt wades in to a pool of contemporary philosophy without sustaining any depth. Whether or not that was the case the film attracted all of the highest honours at festivals in North America and globally.

As much as Lola rennt built on previous films to achieve its overall effect, popular culture has added it to the canon. The film has been parodied several times and references to it appear all over the American media, including everything from The Simpsons to Buffy.

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