"Icare" is very good for Ancient Greece nerds like me. Don't know if it's good for general public.
It keeps EXTREMELY close to the mythical events of its ancient sources - while, miraculously, staying a kid-friendly film (all the "adult" themes are heavily hinted at, but never shown explicitly). The characters are reinterpreted, but that's what Ancient Greek and Roman writers always did: reexamining old stories, giving them a new, contemporary meaning, weaving several different stories into one.
There are many wonderful details. The statue made by Daedalus is a scaled-up version of the "snake goddess" from Knossos; the episode with Theseus and the ring of Minos is taken from a dithyramb by Bacchylides; Pasiphaë looks like women from Minoan frescoes; the buildings, the interior designs, the labryes, the story of Daedalus putting a string through a seashell...
"Icare" is very good for Ancient Greece nerds like me. Don't know if it's good for general public.
It keeps EXTREMELY close to the mythical events of its ancient sources - while, miraculously, staying a kid-friendly film (all the "adult" themes are heavily hinted at, but never shown explicitly). The characters are reinterpreted, but that's what Ancient Greek and Roman writers always did: reexamining old stories, giving them a new, contemporary meaning, weaving several different stories into one.
There are many wonderful details. The statue made by Daedalus is a scaled-up version of the "snake goddess" from Knossos; the episode with Theseus and the ring of Minos is taken from a dithyramb by Bacchylides; Pasiphaë looks like women from Minoan frescoes; the buildings, the interior designs, the labryes, the story of Daedalus putting a string through a seashell...