The Princess and the Warrior

Name: The Princess and the Warrior
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: June 22, 2001
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Benno Fürmann, Franka Potente, Joachim Król, Lars Rudolph

2001

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THE PRINCESS & THE WARRIOR

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 22, 2001

Starring: Benno Fürmann, Franka Potente, Joachim Król, Lars Rudolph

Summary: 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.

Director: Tom Tykwer

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 135 min

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Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas

A heady yet disciplined work, a dazzling fable of love, destiny and redemption. Read full review

Variety - David Rooney

Eminently stylish, visually striking romantic thriller. Read full review

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. Read full review

Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Sean Axmaker

When (Tykwer) connects it's exhilarating and gorgeous, a sight to behold. Read full review

USA Today - Mike Clark

The film has its moments as a mood piece. Read full review

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. Read full review

Village Voice - Michael Atkinson

Throughout, Tykwer reaches for mysteries he has no idea how to evoke, relying instead on his actors' empty stares. Read full review

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UnbearableLightness

Dec 16, 2003

Brilliant.

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amurabim.

Jan 10, 2006

This long and overrated film is made for tom "lola" tykwer. the original version rus along three hours and a half, but this version is "just" two hours long, and it happens than this version is too cut, too edited to get something coherent, but it fails to do it. tykwer made so many This long and overrated film is made for tom "lola" tykwer. the original version rus along three hours and a half, but this version is "just" two hours long, and it happens than this version is too cut, too edited to get something coherent, but it fails to do it. tykwer made so many subplots, so many characters than all of them are not "detail" but distractions of the original story. there are so many twists and turns than just works to bother and distract over the love story. of course, is exquisitely filmed but all the gimmicks, tricks and that hyperkinetic mise en scène are seems like something redundant and vacuous. the plot involving potente and furmann love story seems short and restrained to be more anecdotic than the actually main premise. it feels disappointing because is too brainy, too forced to play mind tricks, and too forced artsy and intellectual. "run lola run" works because has the same characteristics hidden in that popular taste and in "der krieger un die kaiserin" tant subltlety is hidden in a madhouse.… Expand

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tonyGreen

May 27, 2011

I don't understand Tom Tykwer. He makes two kinds of movies: rippers (Winter-sleepers, Heaven) and stinkers. this is one of the latter. This has the same adolescent fantasy plot devices as Run, Lola, Run, but that film was more of a festival / music video peice of fun. Franka Potente isI don't understand Tom Tykwer. He makes two kinds of movies: rippers (Winter-sleepers, Heaven) and stinkers. this is one of the latter. This has the same adolescent fantasy plot devices as Run, Lola, Run, but that film was more of a festival / music video peice of fun. Franka Potente is great as ever, but this meandering mess cannot be saved.… Expand

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StanleyKubrick

Aug 19, 2016

Nice cinematography, some good actors, but simply one of the worst screenplays ever written by a man or a woman. It's just childish fluff, that tries to appear as high-art. Some actors are miscast and the whole thing is much too long. Don't expect "Run, Lola, Run". This is boring and ridiculous.

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