![]() ![]() Lucinda, equally delicate in her own way, is also an heiress who becomes fascinated with the manufacture of glass. ("Dear God," the boy prays, "if it be Thy will that ![]() Red-haired, bashful Oscar is birdlike and shy, having been cowed early in life by a punitively devout father who disapproves even of such indulgences as Christmas dessert. With the singularity of what might be a real family history, it lets a present-day male narrator tell of Oscar Hopkins (Fiennes) and Lucinda Leplastrier (Cate Blanchett), kindred spirits who shaped that narrator's ancestral past.Īlso vital to the story of his creation are a glass church and a bet on whether it can be moved from Sydney to the remote north of Australia. Without the presence of Ralph Fiennes, but this tale is much more remote. The book's descriptive elegance and richly peculiar imagination would give the film a pedigree like that of "The English Patient" even Which is a lot, given the quirkiness of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel. Ithout doubt, there is no more eccentric story to be found on-screen right now than "Oscar and Lucinda," in which love, glass, Christianity and gambling somehowĪs directed exquisitely by Gillian Armstrong in a headstrong spirit that recalls her debut feature, "My Brilliant Career," this elliptical tale makes up in visual beauty whatever it lacks in universal meaning. The New York Times on the Web: Current Film.'Oscar and Lucinda': Visual Beauty in a Quirky Tale ![]()
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