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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 1988

PG
Parental Guidance
… thrilling fantasy that places Ward … among the most innovative and authoritative young film makers.
– Caryn James, New York Times review, 28 June 1989
This short, intense picture is like a collaboration between William Golding and Gene Roddenberry, The Spire meets Star Trek, and is the work of someone with a distinctive talent and vision. Ward is an antipodean Werner Herzog.
– Philip French in The Observer
...it clearly indicates that a masterpiece is on the way. He is a true magician, New Zealand's greatest filmmaker. Surrender to this film, forgive it in advance its few moments of awkwardness, and you will walk from the cinema trembling at the knees.
– Chris Hegan in The Listener, 4 February 1989, page 42
Extraordinary cinematography breathes life into this inventive re-telling of old myths. There are plenty who decry Vincent Ward's passion for the perfect image as obsessive. Me, I think he's great.
– Listener critic Helen Martin, in a list of the 10 best films of 1989, The Listener, 8 January 1990, page 106