I thought Run Lola Run was a very formalist film and a very clever film aswell. The form was quite realist except for small parts for example a cartoon shown at the beginning and a scene where the two main characters are talking and the editor has tinted the scene red. Except for this the form of the film is very formalist.
The story however is a difference between formalist and realist. The story of a man about to rob a shop before his mobster boss shows up and his girlfriend has to save him is relatively straightforward realist. But the story is then repeated twice more to show what could have happened and this is very formalist. But what do you classify as the story.
In retrospect the film is not as formalist as I had thought the only thing that is formalist is part of the story and a very small part of the form. It is a good film though.
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This post is a bit confusing and I think you sum that up in your final paragraph with the two words 'in retrospect'. The focus I asked you to look at were the 5 areas of film construction: camerawork, editing, sound, mise-en-scene and cinematography.
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