July 8, 2008

7:00 pm

free
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Tuesday, July 8 (7:00 pm)

Der Krieger und die Kaiserin = The Princess and the Warrior (X Filme Creative Pool, Germany, 2000). Dir & Wrt Tom Tykwer. With Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Joachim Król, Lars Rudolph, Melchior Beslon, Ludger Pistor. (135 min, color, scope, 35mm, in German with English subtitles)

German director Tom Tykwer’s followup to the hugely successful Run Lola Run was a return to the more contemplative, dreamlike tone of his earlier Winter Sleepers. Set in the city of Wuppertal, the metaphysical Princess and the Warrior is heavily concerned with fate, chance encounters, sheer coincidence. Sissi (Potente), a nurse at a psychiatric hospital, gets hit by a truck on her way to the bank. Her life is saved by Bodo (Fürmann), an ex-army officer on the run from police. After her recovery, Sissi is determined to find her savior, and when she does, refuses to accept his rejection. (WK)

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