1986 · mythology · fantasy · epic
Arion
Directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko1h 59m1986
The story follows Arion, a young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her.
Our read: Arion (1986) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive mythology · fantasy · epic entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured mythology / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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