It is quite difficult for a director to make a new film after producing the best film his country has seen in a decade. Tom Tykwer's "Krieger und Kaiserin" is this follow-up. It is a romantic love-story, that is refreshingly unconventional. If there were more films like Tykwer's latest, it would be easier to criticise. Compared with the mainstream of popular cinema it is wonderful. But at times it is just a little boring, a little too slow. Compare "La fille sur le ponte" with it and you will see, that you can make a similar film that is much more fascinating, due for example to the use of a black and white material.
Review of The Princess and the Warrior
