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Don't listen to the negative reviews

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is an amazing film. How could I have missed it until now? Well, better late than never. Directed with sizzling intensity and flair by the Australian Gillian Armstrong, it pairs Ralph Fiennes as Oscar with Cate Blanchett as Lucinda, when they were at their most youthful, zestful, and charming. It is a kind of gnomic comedy, but it is also a sweeping drama. In fact, it defies all categories. Seeing her as she was then, and thinking of her as she is now (solid, established, accomplished), my breath was taken away by the youthful and shameless vivacity with which Banchett here makes the screen ripple with skittish, playful laughter and merriment. Blanchett and Fiennes play two oddballs, whose childhoods are briefly but effectively sketched, in this strange tale set in the 1840s and based on a novel by the Australian novelist Peter Carey. There is a narrator's voice, that of Geoffrey Rush, who tells us about them as we follow them through their lives and discover how they meet. From then on, their story is shared. They both have the same single vice, being pathological gamblers. They will bet or wager on anything, compulsively. This is treated very much in a comic fashion. There is a great deal of astonishing cinematography of the wilds of New South Wales, especially of a place called the Clarence River Valley. At times, it is almost like watching a wildlife film, with Oscar and Lucinda as the creatures with the strange habits. They are so obsessed with gambling that they forget to fall in love until rather late in the story. Rarely have an actor and actress been so perfectly paired as these two in this film. They play off each other as wittily as William Powell and Myrna Loy in the Thin Man films. So wonderful are they together that the world missed a great chance in that they did not make a string of films together, instead of only this magnificent

England, mid-19th century. Lucinda is a wealthy Australian heiress with a love of glass, resulting in her buying a glass factory. Oscar is a young Anglican priest. Both have a gambling addiction, though Oscar has been very successful with this pastime. Lucinda builds a church made entirely of glass and transports it to Australia. On the ship she meets Oscar, setting off a dramatic chain of events.Good, but not great. Had massive potential - it was compelling viewing for the first 60% or so of the movie. But then it takes a rather random turn, a turn which should have just been a minor detour but becomes the ultimate plot line. Great performance from Ralph Fiennes and a good one from Cate Blanchett. Good support from Ciaran Hinds.

This film is so unique. So deep. So odd, you cannot help but love it. I have been searching for it for years. I will never forget it again. These tow actors are exquisite in this film and the storyline, well, it goes into your deepest place and lives there. I adored it. And a floating glass love nest is beyond what most of us can even imagine let alone adore. Please let me know your feelings after you have seen this film. I need to know there are others on earth who love it as i do...I need to know that my taste is not so unusual as to set me apart from the majority of movie fans...but then again, I really do not care. I am a Tim Burton lover, so that about says it...don't you think?

This is a beautifully filmed movie about absolutely nothing. Happily, I saw it on television or I would really have felt cheated. The only reason I watched it to the end was to see how many anachronisms, absurd improbabilities and historical inaccuracies the film would commit; there were enough to keep me slightly amused for about an hour. After sixty minutes of so, the movie seemed to drag on for ever because it was so full of nonsense that would never have happened in Victorian times or any other time for that matter. Just being beautifully shot wasn't enough. What a waste of a fine cast! That may be the thing that got me most vexed about this movie.