1985 · fantasy · romance · adventure
Ladyhawke
Directed by Richard Donner2h 1m1985
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Our read: Ladyhawke (1985) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · romance · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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