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Ladyhawke is a 1985 film starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer, directed by Richard Donner.

The film is set in medieval Europe. Hauer (in one of his rare classic hero roles) plays castle-guard captain Étienne of Navarre to Pfeiffer's Isabeau d'Anjou who fall in love, but are torn apart by means of a curse cast upon them by the corrupt hierocratic ruler of Aquila. By day Navarre is a human but by night he is a wolf. On the other hand, Isabeau is human by night but hawk by day (hence the name of the movie). Broderick plays Philippe Gaston, known as "the Mouse", a plucky young thief turned dungeon escapee, who aids the lovers in a dangerous quest to break the supernatural bonds set upon them by the curse.

Dr. E.C. Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, cites the film in his book Beyond the Blue Horizon as a modern example of archaeoastronomical eclipse imagery. The therioanthropic elements are shared with two medieval lais by Marie de France — "Bisclavret", the tale of a werewolf, and "Yonec", in which a knight transforms into a falcon — and are also reminiscent of the ancient symbologies of solar hawk and night wolf.

The music of the film was composed by Andrew Powell, a composer and orchestrator most well known for his work with Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson for The Alan Parsons Project. Donner stated in the soundtrack's liner notes that he had been location-scouting with a steady soundtrack of the Projects' albums, and so he married music style to pictures in his mind before the film was even begun. Powell wrote the score and approached Parsons to produce the music, thus making it appear as if it was an instrumental album of the band.

The locations of the movie are in Italy in the Province of Piacenza. The castles include Fontanellato, Bacedasco and Castell'Arquato, where most of the exterior filming took place.

Category:1985 films Category:Fantasy films Category:Films directed by Richard Donner Category:Werewolves in film and television

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