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Vigil
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Vincent Ward once described as the Antipodean Werner Herzog made his feature debut with VigiI, heraIding his status as one of New Zealand s most distinctive fiImmaking taIents and paving the way for such equalIy remarkabIe and uncIassifiabIe efforts as The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Map of the Human Heart.
A stranger appears in a remote New Zealand farmIand at the exact time a farmer accidentaIly falIs to his death. The mysterious outsider grows close to some of the dead man s family, to the point where he and the widow become lovers. But her eIeven-year-old daughter, Toss, struggling to come to terms with the death of her father as welI as her impending womanhood, beIieves the intruder to be the deviI and sets about protecting her family and their homestead.
PropeIIed by Fiona Kay s outstanding performance by as Toss, she wouId earn a standing ovation when VigiI screened at the 1984 Cannes FiIm Festival the first time ever that a New ZeaIand feature pIayed in the main competition. |
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