Ne bih ga svrstala u must-see klasike, ali film mi svidio prvenstveno zbog motiva proklete ljubavi, tragične priče u kojoj se možemo izgubiti, kako kaže jedan lik:
Imperious: (...) By day, Isabeau is the beautiful bird you brought to me. And by night (...) the voice of the wolf that we hear is the cry of Navarre. Poor dumb creatures, with no memory of the half-life of their human existence, never touching in the flesh. Only the anguish of a split second at sunrise and sunset, when they can almost touch... but not.
Phillipe: Always together - eternally apart...
Imperious: As long as the sun rises and sets, as long as there is day and night, and for as long as they both shall live. You have stumbled onto a tragic story, Phillipe Gaston. And now, whether you like it or not, you are lost in it, with the rest of us.
Film je sniman u Italiji i u njemu možemo vidjeti predivne slike krajolika, a najupečatljiviji aspekt filma svakako je glazba koja poprilično odudara od onoga što bismo očekivali u filmu čija je radnja smještena u srednji vijek. Iako iz nekog razloga ne volim gledati Rutgera Hauera, svi su se glumci iskazali u svojim ulogama, a posebno očarava Michelle Pfeiffer kao Isabeau (ne mogu zamisliti nijednu drugu glumicu u toj ulozi).
Memorable scene:
Phillipe: Are you flesh, or are you spirit?
Isabeau: I am sorrow.
Etienne Navarre: Do you know that hawks and wolves mate for life? The Bishop didn't even leave us that... not even that.