[UA] UA movie recommendation

[Frank Lohmann]

"Dylan Craig" <wytchfynder at hotmail.com> wrote:

> It ain't about Larp or law, but for what its worth: I -highly- recommend 'Lola
> rennt' (Run, Lola, Run) as an excellent piece of UAish viewing. 

I'd also recommend the latest film by Tom Tykwer - "Der Krieger und die 
Kaiserin" (mislabeled "the Princess and the Warrior" - "Empress" would have been 
a more fitting translation). Its basically a modern fairy tale, beautifully 
filmed and told. While not particulaly UAish at first glance, the character of 
"Sissi" might well be a low level Avatar of the True King.

However, I mostly recommend it for its slow approach to telling the story - it 
takes a lot of time to introduce the characters, and there's not much action in 
it. At times, it's almost dreamlike.

Beware, however - it's definitively not like "Run, Lola, Run" - much more the 
opposite in terms of narrative speed and action content. IMDB link is 
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0203632. I definitively recomment this movie, if only 
to show that the European Cinema is very diffenert from the cliche of french 
problem films with too much dialogue, cheesy italian semi-Porn and goofy german 
comedies... 8)

Cheers!
	Frank
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Frank Cord Lohmann           
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