Review of The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Now here’s an oddity i’ve not seen for years but which i enjoyed and whose central idea has fascinated and stayed with me. In the first section we’re in Plague-stricken medieval England and a world of black and white and then, after some tunnelling with our intrepid travellers and visionary young guide (Tarkovsky fans would do right to think Stalker and Andrei Rublev’s bell-maker) we pop up in a modern colourful New Zealand metropolis, and what a shocking new world it is, where crossing the road and avoiding the infernal roaring machines is a major undertaking.