In And Out Of Focus
August, 2001
The Princess and the Warrior (Sony Pictures Classics) is an infuriating film. Strangely compelling at times, drawn out, then downright silly, this fable will test the patience of many a moviegoer. Franka Potente, whom the director, Tom Tykwer, introduced to the world in Run Lola Run, plays a good-hearted nurse who is run over by a truck; the reckless young man (Benno Fürmann) who caused the accident also helps save her and thus becomes imbedded in her consciousness. When he later turns up at the...
