Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) (2000)

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• Cynthia S

  
  Pretty to look at, but unnecessarily slow...as if the goal were to make a heist movie without the vulgar ingredient of excitement. Very odd movie. I kept asking myself "is there a point to all this"? Very long, too. Just not my cup of tea, apparently.

• Stella D

  
  a fairy tale, as the title suggests, in the sense that fairy tales are myths of psychic healing. it's one of the oldest functions of storytelling and the characters here are archetypal. love franka and that hypnotic piano theme during the heist. an ambitious film on many… More
  a fairy tale, as the title suggests, in the sense that fairy tales are myths of psychic healing. it's one of the oldest functions of storytelling and the characters here are archetypal. love franka and that hypnotic piano theme during the heist. an ambitious film on many levels and i was pretty into it up until the end, when everything is seemingly spelled out in giant block letters just in case we didn't get it.

• xGary X

  
  A psychiatric nurse tracks down the mystery man who saved her life after a traffic accident but finds herself on the run when she is caught up in his attempt to rob a bank. The Princess and the Warrior is an offbeat love story that has "European cinema" written all over it.… More
  A psychiatric nurse tracks down the mystery man who saved her life after a traffic accident but finds herself on the run when she is caught up in his attempt to rob a bank. The Princess and the Warrior is an offbeat love story that has "European cinema" written all over it. Two damaged individuals find solace in each others arms after various trauma that affect their lives and much forced poignancy and unlikely coincidence indicating "fate" rear their heads in the process. It's basically the kind of film that would never be made in Hollywood and as such does feel quite refreshing but there is an underlying air of pretension that stops it from being a truly great film; the metaphorical ending in particular was rather ham fisted in way that made me feel that the director might as well as drawn an "emotional" diagram with accompanying flow charts and maybe a nice bar graph thrown in. But as with all films, the entertainment level boils down to whether the story interests you and the performances appeal and in this case, they do. Pretty to look at and oddball enough to please any fans of indie or world cinema, if a little emotionally unaffecting for the above reasons.

• Leigh R

  
  Beautiful, love it. Would watch one hundred times in a row and not get bored.

• Gordon A

  
  Enjoyable but less engaging than 'Run Lola Run'.

• Michael G

  
  Such a beautiful and well done movie. Often mindbending and heartbreaking. Incredible score/soundtrack too. I'm definitely kicking myself for not seeing this sooner.

• Curt C

  
  Do you know what you get when you have your climax half way through the movie? A bad movie. A series of random events that never really leads anywhere or builds any sort of attachment to the characters.

• Daisy M

  
  Sometimes I find it hard to get the right words to describe a movie.Specially Europeans ones. This is an unusual love story? a melodramatic thriller? Which was sometimes disturbing, too, especially the scenes in the psychiatry, where Sissy works as a nurse - and the hypnotizing music.… More
  Sometimes I find it hard to get the right words to describe a movie.Specially Europeans ones. This is an unusual love story? a melodramatic thriller? Which was sometimes disturbing, too, especially the scenes in the psychiatry, where Sissy works as a nurse - and the hypnotizing music. Director Tom Tykwer shows here that he can tell stories with heart and soul. There are characters you really care for. In my case, Bodo,( Benno Fürmanns) performance touched me deeply, and off course Sissi. (Franka Potente) I was on her side when she was desperately fighting for Bodo´s love. Im not used to German movies but I guess this was one of the best German movies of that year? I highly recommend it.

• Doctor S

  
  'The Princess and The Warrior' Royally Blows Wow, this one moves at the pace you do in your nightmares when you're trying to run away from evil creatures. 'Crawl, Lola, Crawl' is a more fitting title than the completely befuddling one they chose. I understood… More
  'The Princess and The Warrior' Royally Blows Wow, this one moves at the pace you do in your nightmares when you're trying to run away from evil creatures. 'Crawl, Lola, Crawl' is a more fitting title than the completely befuddling one they chose. I understood very little about this movie about fate, damaged relationships, and creating your own destiny. The existential ending provides just another nugget in the landslide of confusion.

• Marion R

  
  Interesting direction. It was a lot different from what I thought it was going to be. It was okay. I found the characters to be two-dimensional.

• Leo L

  
  Great movie! Franka Potente and Benno Furmann are brilliant!!

• Wu C

  
  Some good visuals and nicely woven story plots.

• Eduardo C

  
  We forget that film is a relatively new art form, and so inspired by theater that so little of what can be done with sound and image combined has been explored. It is so rare to find a film in which sight and sound flow seamlessly, combine to augment eachother, to create a whole that… More
  We forget that film is a relatively new art form, and so inspired by theater that so little of what can be done with sound and image combined has been explored. It is so rare to find a film in which sight and sound flow seamlessly, combine to augment eachother, to create a whole that is much better than the already considerable sum of its parts. The Princess and the Warrior is a film about coincidences, fate and love which uses every single resource at its disposal to propel itself. It is not a mish-mash, it is not style above substance, it all flows together naturally, organitcally, a rare case of style and substance merging to create a higher being. Every artsy shot has purpose, every surreal sequence has a point, every song, every shot part of an ultimate goal. Nothing is unnecessary. It may be slightly long at the end, it may take viewers for a twist or two more than it has to, but it is a real, audio-visual work of art.

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