Planet of the Apes
***
Cinema
Releases - July 13, 2001
Certificate 15. 135 minutes. Written and directed
by Tom Tykwer. Starring Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Joachim Krol, Lars
Rudolph, Melchior Beslor.
"The Princess and the Warrior" is
Tom Tykwer's follow-up to the 1998 masterpiece "Run Lola Run". It has the
same rich, vibrant visual style, but a more restrained energy level and a
less obvious plot. It's hypnotic film that takes a long time to reveal itself
-- it is frank about being strange, and has not a trace of
timidity.
Franka Potente plays Sissi, a nurse who works
robotically in a mental home. One day she is hit by a truck, and saved by
a young thief named Bodo (Benno Furmann). Weeks later, she tracks the guy
down, only to find herself shooed away by him. And then the two of them end
up running into each other in peculiar circumstances, until they are brought
together for damn sure by the film's oddly gripping
conclusion.
These characters are mysterious and extremely
guarded. It takes a good while for us to gauge anything about them, what
they mean, or what anything on the screen means. Tykwer pieces everything
together in a mysterious, attractive manner that keeps us intrigued, drifting
through ambiguity and coincidence and surrealism with supreme confidence.
I'm being vague here -- partly because it's been a while since I saw the
film, mainly because I don't want to ruin its surprises.
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