Chillingly constructed from pieces of audio recordings, fragments of 16mm film and talking-head interviews with the people closest to the story, Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell's superb documentary about a round-the-world regatta gone terribly wrong echoes the dark poetry of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym, men who sailed to sea in search of fortune only to encounter the abyss within themselves.
Described by one interviewee as a "second Elizabethan age" for Britain, 1967 saw several causes for celebration, not the least of which was the successful voyage of Francis Chichester, who became the first sailor to circumnavigate the globe ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins