Ladyhawke

In a medieval fairy-tale world, Isabeau and Navarre are the young lovers who cannot be together, even though they are always together. The bishop of the castle of Aquila has called down a curse upon them because he could not have the coveted Isabeau himself. She is a hawk by day and herself by night, while Navarre becomes a wolf by night. Always together and yet apart. The story begins when the nimble young thief Phillipe is rescued from his pursuers, the bishop's men, by Navarre, who before the curse was the bishop's captain of the guard.

Phillipe becomes the link between the unhappy couple and helps spur Navarre on to set out for Aquila to kill the bishop. The possibility that the curse can be lifted is also there, but that requires a good dose of luck and Phillipe's ingenuity.

Ladyhawke entertains as a fairy tale should, but the film is badly marred by Andrew Powell's noisy synthesizer score, which destroys more atmosphere than it creates. A misjudgement of epic proportions, in my opinion.