Add a “y” to the title of Italian director Giulio Bertelli’s haunting high-art debut and you’ll get a good idea of what’s in store: plenty of agony, both physical and mental, in an eerily life-like account of three female athletes facing major catastrophes.
Not exactly a documentary, yet far from a typical work of fiction, Agon places its trio of heroines in situations ripped from the hard-knocks, highly engineered world of professional sports, pushing them to the limit and then some. After months of intense physical therapy and state-of-the-art training, all three of them wind up competing in a mock Olympic Games known as “Ludoj 2024.” But their chances of going gold are challenged by calamities they have little ability to control, putting their careers at risk.
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