Movies 2007 #49 The Princess and the Warrior

The Princess and the Warrior Tom Tykwer’s follow-up to 1998’s Run Lola Run (the first film I bought on DVD by the way) is an interesting film. In terms of pacing it’s the complete opposite to its predecessor. Run Lola Run was a quick, frenetic, gem of a film that wrapped itself up in a neat little bow at the end. This? This is a long, ponderous affair which leaves a lot more open to interpretation at the end. It’s good, in that I spent time thinking about it, but it wasn’t a particularly fun film to watch. It’s well wrought, well acted and features Franka Potente, which counts for a lot, but it’s so glacial in pacing, and just so weird it was better as an intellectual exercise than it was as a piece of entertainment. Intellectual is okay by me, of course, I just expected something a little more viscerally engaging after the delirious ride that was Run Lola Run.