2000 · drama · romance · thriller
The Princess and the Warrior
Directed by Tom Tykwer2h 15m2000
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future.
Our read: The Princess and the Warrior (2000) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · romance · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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