2023 · drama · adventure · fantasy
Irati
Directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo1h 52m2023
Western Pyrenees, year 778. When his land is threatened by the ruthless armies of the Frankish emperor, a Basque warlord asks for help from his ancestral gods.
Our read: Irati (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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