Screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen’s passion project, Watership Down, achieves a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces.
The movie is defined by its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant acting.
The voice work comes from a superb ensemble of English actors, including John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott,
Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
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