Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A bogatyr is an epic warrior from ancient Kievan Rus. Most are directed in the traditional bylinas, traditional Russian epic poems, as being endowed with enormous strength and cunning, although often not completely immune to human weaknesses. Here, our three heroes gather together once more to rescue the ruler of the land from the attempts of an evil foreign queen. She plans to make him fall in love with her so her youth and beauty can be renewed, but in exchange will destroy his kingdom.
Our read · Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen (2010) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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