The Diviners (1993 TV Movie) User Reviews

The epic culmination of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka series.

[Andréa · 7/10 · 4 October 1999]

Based on the 1974 Governor General's Award-winning novel, The Diviners brings Margaret Laurence's Manawaka to life. The film follows Morag Gunn from her tough childhood in Manitoba through to middle-age -- all the while showing Morag's search for love. Along the way, we meet various characters from the Manawaka series and catch a glimpse into the many ways that society creates outcasts. The film also explores mythology, as shown through Christie's Scottish Piper Gunn, Mètis hero Jules Tonnerre, Morag's novel and songs by Skinner and Piquette. As Margaret Laurence's crowning achievement, The Diviners shows that truth and love can be "divined" in many ways.

Morag: "Look ahead into the past ...

[stephanlinsenhoff · 8/10 · 24 March 2016]

... and back into the future. (right into silence) " Swedish edition 1986:448

writes Morag, mother to her daughter, daughter to her father Jules, Canadian Indian. The film moves forward and back, following the shifting of Morags life after her parents death. She lives with Christy and his wife. The towns garbage collector, laughed at by the children. Back and forth but always forward we follow Morags life towards her life as a writer. She falls in love with Jules, the halve blood Canadian Indian. Morag is their daughter. But Jules is unable to stay. Comes and goes as he feels to. A book and a movie that touches when it crosses your life

In a heart-moving scene near the end, Christy at the hospital, paralyzed, visited by Morag, we witness his greatness.

..... to be continued.