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Dominican Rep. Oscar and Lucinda
- Original title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 131 min.
- Country
Australia- Director
- Screenwriter
- Laura Jones. Novel: Peter Carey
- Cast
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Ralph Fiennes
Cate Blanchett
Tom Wilkinson
Ciarán Hinds
Richard Roxburgh
Clive Russell- Bille Brown
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Costume Drama
- Movie Groups
- Peter Carey Adaptations
- Synopsis
- In mid-1800's England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to the Australian Outback. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1997: Nominated for Oscar: Best Costume Design1997: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nom. Most Prom. Actress (Cate Blanchett)
- Critics' reviews
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"Despite some obvious overplotting, Oscar and Lucinda is a mostly effective and often affecting motion picture that touches our hearts while daring our minds to balk at its implausible coincidences"
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"It exchanges the narrative fluidity of the page for visual composition of such strong beauty that the slowness of the storytelling becomes its own eccentric strength"
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"A beautiful but annoying Victorian-era melodrama"
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"It accumulates weight as it goes along, ultimately becoming as thoughtful and emotionally involving as it is beautiful to behold"
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"Armstrong is usually a strong and original director of actors. But here, her taste seems to have deserted her"
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"A unique romance that has a sparrow's frail beauty"
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