1978 · animation · drama · adventure
Watership Down
Directed by Martin Rosen1h 32m1978
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Our read: Watership Down (1978) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive animation · drama · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
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