Because "Run, Lola, Run" was such an astonishing piece of work, it is inevitable that its writer/director, Tom Tykwer, should
be scrutinized heavily upon the release of his next film, "The Princess and the Warrior." The result of that scrutiny: not a bad film, but not near what Tykwer is capable of. "The Princess and the Warrior" lets us again watch Lola herself, Franka Potente. This time, she's Sissi, a nurse in a psychiatric ward whose devotion to her patients is borderline obsessive. We know nothing else about her life, at first.
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