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Princess and the Warrior, The
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for disturbing images, language and some sexual content
Starring
Franka Potente,
Benno Fürmann,
Joachim Król,
Marita Breuer,
Lars Rudolph,
and
Melchior Beslon
Director Tom Tykwer reunites with his "Run Lola Run" star Franka Potente in this film about the relationship between a small time criminal and a shy psychiatric nurse who meet as the result of a horrible accident.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Tom Tykwer
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tom Tykwer
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 29, 2002
Video: January 29, 2002
Theatrical: June 22, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
German (with English subtitles) |
Original German title "Der Krieger und die Kaiserin"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A heady yet disciplined work, a dazzling fable of love, destiny and redemption.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What's special about the film is at a deeper level, down where (Tykwer) engages with the souls of his characters.

83
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Every once in a while a picture comes along that captures not just love, but romance in all its fear, yearning, fantasy, eroticism and unexpected epiphanies. German filmmaker Tom Tykwer's The Princess and the Warrior is one such film.

80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Deeply whimsical beneath its poker face, The Princess and the Warrior has the structure of an elaborate mind-teasing puzzle.

80
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
The cornerstone of this fascinating film is a peculiar but absolutely solid love story. In terms of intellectual and emotional stimulation, who could ask for more?

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
You don't have any idea what's going to happen next. You're not caught in a movie, so much as a narrative stratagem.

80
Variety
David Rooney
Eminently stylish, visually striking romantic thriller.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Spellbinding on its own terms, a modernist fable with a madly romantic soul.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Offers much food for thought.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
When (Tykwer) connects it's exhilarating and gorgeous, a sight to behold.

75
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
An unpredictable, mythic tale about haunted outcasts that is both dazzling and disquieting.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Vastly more explicit (be warned) and intelligent (than "Angel Eyes"). It also leads to much darker - and more interesting - places.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Lacks the gimmicky hook that made "Run Lola Run" an arthouse hit, but it doesn't lack for ideas, nor for images that will sweep you up in their boldness and have the resonance of dreams.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's dreary and self-indulgent but has its crystalline moments.

70
Newsweek
David Ansen
Goes on too long, and much of it is hooey, but it’s hard not to have a good time.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
The film has its moments as a mood piece.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Princess is far more contemplative than "Run Lola Run," far less energized, and the little tricks of fate that made his last film so unique seem like sophomoric affectations here.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Tykwer made Potente a star in Run Lola Run, and here she repays him 10 times over. Without her force of gravity, this film would waft into the ether.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Nowhere near as dynamic as the title implies. It's hard not to think of it as ''Sleepwalk Lola Sleepwalk.''
60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Promising in its first third, only to end up shambling too aimlessly in the last. But as flawed as this picture is, there's one sequence in it that has already burrowed deep in my memory, and of everything in the movie, it's the one element that convinces me that Tykwer has it in him to one day make a truly great picture.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
(Tykwer's) unpredictability has become predictable, and the only thing genuinely uncanny here is the unsettling — and unintentional — sense of déjà vu.

50
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Tykwer may want meaning to go with his special effects, but the problem with his filmmaking, both here and earlier, is that he's more interested in his own bag of tricks than in actually saying something.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Tykwer ends the film on a bizarre note that caught me off guard, a too-literal bit of salvation that is more bothersome than revelatory.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
An absurdist semi-romance between two traumatized somnambulists.
30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Throughout, Tykwer reaches for mysteries he has no idea how to evoke, relying instead on his actors' empty stares.


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