What: Sissi is a sweet, mild-mannered nurse at a psychiatric institution. She has no family to speak of and a very limited life outside of her job. Bodo is a taciturn thief/ex-soldier tortured by a mysterious past. The description sounds Gothic, but the movie itself is not. It's dreamlike, in the sense that scenes of kinetic frenzy (car chase, bank robbery, murder attempt) punctuate scenes of beautiful, floaty unreality.
Comparable to: It's the same writer/director and star as Run, Lola, Run, so, yes, like that. But with less running. And no one is named Lola.
You might not like it if: It's too dreamily improbable for you. Also, it's in German, so if you don't speak the language and you don't like reading subtitles . . .
How to get it: Rent, borrow, or buy. Also note: Writer/director Tom Tykwer is involved in the film adaptation of David Mitchell's adored-and-assumed-to-be-unfilmable novel Cloud Atlas, and don't you want to have an opinion about that?
[Originally posted 3/11/11. Since then, I also recommended Tykwer's Run Lola Run (Rec. #170).]
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