Oscar and Lucinda

This is one of my favorite movies. Regular readers of my comments will wonder why I elevate it to my "must see" categoryPart of the reason I want you to see it is because of how well it pairs with... Full review

*Oscar and Lucinda* is based on a brilliant, though very tough-to-adapt, novel by Peter Carey. It is a small miracle that director Gillian Armstrong succeeded so magnificently. (I'm giving all the credit to her: the end-credits tell us that the... Full review

There are many films that are so controversial yet so beautiful, they appeal to only a select number of individuals. "Oscar & Lucinda" is one such triumph. It manages to border on heresy and yet sustain profoundness. Altogether a masterful... Full review

Based on Australian novelist, Peter Carey's award-winning book, Oscar and Lucinda, this is a faithful period piece about iconoclasts and their attempt to find love and purpose in strait-laced society despite their fears and obsessions.Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett have... Full review

After a slow beginning, Oscar and Lucinda meet and create a peculiar relationship with God on one side and the addiction of gambling on the other. The last half hour is quiet fascinating as Oscar takes a journey to sail... Full review

Do you like great acting? I mean something subtle where an actor's face is like an artist's brush or music by a fine composer. In this film Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett are the virtuosos and they simply dazzled me... Full review

This beautifully made romance has an odd appeal. I only ranked it a seven, because it has some flaws - the complicated story is is not rendered clearly in all its details (I could not figure out what was going... Full review

I don't know what it is about Ralph Fiennes and Booker Prize-winning novels (like 1996's THE ENGLISH PATIENT), but this shows him to have a pretty good track record with them. This novel was extremely difficult to follow, but director... Full review

I am not one for love stories, but this one truly moved me. It is wonderfully strange! It's nothing like anything I've seen before. I loved the awkwardness of Oscar and Lucinda, and the way that we had a chance... Full review

The marketing for this film in America was absurd when compared to the real thing. I had seen the trailers, and as I am intrigued by anything with Ralph Fiennes, I took notice. However, the preview stressed an gambling-chance-obsessive fun... Full review

With Fiennes' flawless performance and Armstrong's instinctive directing, this is a piece that shouldn't be written off as another tedious costume drama. Laid across this punchy naturalism are a host of lush, surreal images, making the film seem far more like a poem than an insipid, run-of-the-mill costume drama. ... Full Review

Lucinda's happy being different and doesn't care what other people think but Oscar is uncomfortable with it all and wishes he could fit in with everyone else ... Full Review

Q : I watched a movie that was a surreal tale of two people who were compulsive gamblers. She gambled and ended up buying a glass store; he was a man of the cloth, totally diminished in his own eyes... ... Full Article

Carey is is said to have a generous two-book deal with Penguin. He is impressed by the company's "great new energy" and a return to the sales team that distributed his UQP books. ... Full Article

Acclaimed Australian author Peter Carey has been tipped to win the prestigious Man Booker International Prize. British bookmakers have Carey as the favourite to win, with odds of 6/1, followed by Czech author Arnot Lustig at 7/1 and India's VS... ... Full Article

Carey is nominated along with 13 other novelists, including 2001 Nobel laureate VS Naipaul. The award was first given in 2004 to Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare and is presented once every two years. ... Full Article

Following his enthralling Booker Prize-winners Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang , Carey's latest novel is another tense, doomy saga set mostly in the Australian bush. ... Full Article

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?Is December 18th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on December 18th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. ... Full Article