The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

An Odyssey Across Time.

Vincent Ward · 92 min · Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

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About the film

Directed by
Vincent Ward
Released
December 15, 1988
US theatrical
March 3, 1989
Certification
PG
Country
Australia, New Zealand
Starring
Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish McFarlane, Marshall Napier, Noel Appleby
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Language
English
Origin
NZ, AU
Studios
Arenafilm, Film Investment Corporation of New Zealand, The Australian Film Commission, New Zealand Film Commission
Written by
Geoff Chapple, Kely Lyons, Vincent Ward
Produced by
John Maynard, Gary Hannam
Cinematography
Geoffrey Simpson
Music
Davood A. Tabrizi
Also starring
Paul Livingston, Sarah Peirse, Mark Wheatley, Tony Herbert, Jessica Cardiff-Smith

A boy with a vision. A group of medieval travelers willing to follow him anywhere. And a hole in the fabric of time that leads straight into the modern world.

Shortly after their arrival, the travelers come to the edge of a busy, multi-lane highway at night. They perceive the blinding headlights and roaring engines as terrifying, metallic beasts. This is not a cute "fish out of water" tale. It's a disorienting journey of desperation.

THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY is Vincent Ward's fever dream of a film, a 1988 New Zealand production that bends history, fantasy, and religious zeal into something hypnotic and deeply strange.

The film asks questions about faith, about how we interpret the inexplicable, about the violence of progress. Few directors have made time travel feel this unsettling, this intimate, this stripped of Hollywood machinery.

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