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    Vigil

    Vincent Ward – once described as “the Antipodean Werner Herzog” – made his feature debut with Vigil, heralding his status as one of New Zealand’s most distinctive filmmaking talents and paving the way for such equally remarkable and unclassifiable efforts as The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Map of the Human Heart.

    A stranger appears in a remote New Zealand farmland at the exact time a farmer accidentally falls 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 eleven-year-old daughter, Toss, struggling to come to terms with the death of her father as well as her impending womanhood, believes the intruder to be the devil and sets about protecting her family and their homestead.

    Propelled by Fiona Kay’s outstanding performance by as Toss, she would earn a standing ovation when Vigil screened at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival – the first time ever that a New Zealand feature played in the main competition.

    Production Year: 1984
    Region Code: Free
    UK Rating: 15
    Running Time: 90 mins
    Number of Discs: 1
    Language: English
    Subtitles: English SDH
    Audio: Mono 1.0
    Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
    Colour: Colour
    TITLE NAME
    Director Vincent Ward
    Cast Penelope Stewart
    Cast Frank Whitten
    Cast Bill Kerr

    SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

    • High Definition (Blu-ray) presentation
    • Original mono audio (uncompressed LPCM)
    • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
    • Brand-new appreciation by film critic Nick Roddick, recorded exclusively for this release
    • On-set report from the long-running New Zealand television programme Country Calendar
    • Extract from a 1987 Kaleidoscope television documentary on New Zealand cinema, focusing on Vigil and Vincent Ward
    • Theatrical trailer
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil

    FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Carmen Gray

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