The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

An Odyssey Across Time.

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Release Date

12/15/1988

Runtime

92 mins

Overview

Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A haunting journey that binds together two worlds, plague-struck medieval England and contemporary New Zealand, through the fevered visions of a child seeking divine salvation. The film moves with ritual urgency, layering medieval desperation with the disorientation of temporal dislocation.

Mood

Dread-soakedWistfulEpicUnsettling

Themes

SurvivalFaithComing of ageMortality

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

PainterlyNaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violence

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