40th Anniversary screening of Vigil

Posted Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

40th Anniversary screening of Vigil

Join for this special celebratory screening of Vincent Ward's acclaimed first feature film, Vigil.

Vigil was the first New Zealand film to screen in competition at the Cannes Film Festival (1984), and it received a standing ovation. Vincent will be present at the majestic Embassy Theatre and will be part of the magical conversation.

Film Synopsis: In a remote valley, a farmer dies. In his wake comes a hunter. The farmer's daughter watches him. He starts a relationship with her mother and helps her grandfather to build a strange new invention. To the child, he is a predator. She must expel him from her valley. - NZ Film Commission

Vigil is a powerful atmospheric drama set in a primeval valley where four characters live and farm in an uneasy coexistence. The story unfolds through the eyes of the central character Toss, an 11-year-old girl caught up in the tragedy of her father’s death and the arrival of a stranger, Ethan. Ward spent five years making this mystical testimony to the beauty and immutability of nature's laws and the circle of life and death.  - NZ Film Commission.

Tuesday, 19 November

6:15 PM – 8:30PM

The Grand, Embassy Theatre, Wellington

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