
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
More credits
- 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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Love this movie
This is a brilliant film.
Great film. Shot in Auckland, New Zealand.