2022 · action · drama · history
Medieval
Directed by Petr Jákl2h 6m2022
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
Our read: Medieval (2022) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · drama · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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“You want gritty medieval battles and mercenary politics without fantasy dragons.”
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