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Vigil 1984 123movies

Vigil 1984 123movies

Oct. 01, 198490 Min.
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Watch: Vigil 1984 123movies, Full Movie Online – A lonely girl living on an isolated, mist-cloaked farm is confronted with the changes wrought by a stranger that arrives..
Plot: Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss’s father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss’s fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.
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6.9/10 Votes: 805
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N/A Votes: 16 Popularity: 2.2 | TMDB

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Certainly not like anything else
SPOILER: I don’t know when I’ve seen a film that was so beautiful and yet so utterly baffling. It’s not like any other movie you’ll ever see. Every single image is stark and brutal–the director, Vincent Ward, is trying to enter a primitive painting and make drama out of it. And he has a perfect setting–a sheep farm in New Zealand–that comes from Thomas Hardy’s accounts, in which nature wages an unending, unfathomable conspiracy against the characters. It’s in the actual story Ward tells that he gets into trouble. His 12-year-old heroine, Toss (Fiona Kay) witnesses her farmer father’s death from an accidental fall (as he tries to rescue a sheep) and the camera sits on her impassive face for the first of several eternities. Her restless mother (Penelope Stewart) seizes the opportunity to put the farm up for sale. Her dotty grandfather (Bill Kerr) is like every dotty grandfather in the movies–he putters around, muttering feisty-old-goat aphorisms and tinkering with whimsical machines–and quickly becomes insufferable. Ethan, (Frank Whidden) the hunter who carried the father’s corpse back to the farm, shows up again looking to replace the father. Toss and her mother are both attracted and repelled by him.

In one remarkable sequence, we see Toss experimenting with Ethan’s gun. She looks through the gun sights and begins tracking Ethan through the house, as if she were ambushing James Bond. When Ethan sees her, he steps boldly toward her and removes the sight, which she had taken off the gun and is holding to her eye like a telescope. We are in D.H. Lawrence sexual-awakening territory now, but the combination of Lawrence and Hardy doesn’t ignite the way it should–the director’s austere manner (keeping everything at a distance) begins to seem remote and rather obscure. The scenes don’t follow from each other; each one goes off on its own, and the characters shift attitudes and allegiances to no clear purpose. The performers start doing a lot of staring and squinting into the camera (for LONG periods) only Stewart makes any impression, as she’s the only one who actually engages with the person she’s speaking to (and the only one who seems to have any grasp on reality.) The last fourth of the movie is unspeakably depressing. We finally realize that this is the kind of film where explanations and logic are left out, and the resultant confusion is presented as “depth”. Fascinating and infuriating, in just about equal measure.

Review By: showtrmp
A classic pretentious arty mess.
The main problem with Kiwi movies is that the critics won’t review them dispassionately. Go to virtually all the film sites and you’ll read that this is some kind of classic. It is in fact a boring art-bullied waste of time. The performance by Fiona Kay is excellent, but she is the only fleshed-out character, and doesn’t really behave as a normal person, more an adult’s rather twisted vision of what a small girl might do and think. None of the other thinly-sketched characters are in any way sympathetic, the setting is within a singularly depressing sodden-hills landscape, and the screenplay is mean-spirited and unfathomable. Why for instance does the mother spend considerable time sewing a tutu for Toss and then blithely let her go out and play in the filthy, muddy outdoors in it? Why does the mother suddenly take up with a surly poacher who shows disturbingly pedophile designs on her young daughter? Are we supposed to find the differently-sane grandfather and his deranged, self-absorbed prattle somehow endearing? You want art, fine, here’s your art. You want a proper movie, avoid ‘Vigil’ until Bad Movie Night.
Review By: wadechurton

Other Information:

Original Title Vigil
Release Date 1984-10-01
Release Year 1984

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Mystery
Director Vincent Ward
Writer Vincent Ward, Graeme Tetley, Fiona Lindsay
Actors Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr
Country New Zealand
Awards 3 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory New Zealand National Film Unit [nz]
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Vigil 1984 123movies
Original title Vigil
TMDb Rating 6.9 16 votes

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Vincent Ward
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