Ward's one-of-a-kind opus from 1988. A group of villagers in 1348 are faced with the on-coming plague so dispatch some to place a cross atop the highest church in christendom to mollify the gods. They end up in a modern-day city.
Nice B/W photography. Intelligent script. Very satisfying resolution of the story. Strong characters. Difficult to make out the accents. Imaginative imagery/editing. Good treatment of the mystical/unknowable aspects of the story.
Overall a success. It was a tricky story to pull off and make credible but he succeeded.
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