I love this movie so much

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I hate this crap. It makes me feel dead inside. Pls. Stop. Cant take no more. Blehhhhh......And then it turned out that Darth Vader was Lukes father all along.Mad Ting!!! And Bruce Willis was a ghost too.And Dumbledore died. And Dumbledore was homosexual for Snape.WOW!! Peace Yours sincerely King ThomNah but seriously this show sucked. It was better than the bok but that isn't hard. Don't even get me started on the book. So many grammatical errors. If this is an Australian classic then I fear for Australia. What a awful place that is.

The only miniseries that compares with this one in the sweep of its story and the quality of the acting and production is Brideshead Revisited. This is the story of two, dirt-poor, tragedy-scarred Australian families in the 40s and 50s - and of the large house near Perth that they share. For an American viewer, the effect is heightened by the unfamiliarity of the actors, who are instantly and credibly the characters they play. They are all decent if flawed people, and you find yourself pulling for them to succeed. At the heart of the story is a young Lamb boy, called Fish, who nearly drowns at the outset and as a result is retarded. The telling of the tale is poetic, with the large, ramshackle house (on Cloud Street) and the sea (Fish's "water") playing major roles. Not for all tastes, and there is enough explicit sex to keep it off Masterpiece Theater, but it is a production that will move a lot of viewers. It certainly moved this one.

I have just finished watching the first series and it was fantastic.The cinematography has a magical touch to it which captured me into wanting more and more. Every cast member played their parts with finesse and perfection. The story is based in Australia in the 1940/50's and every detail of this production was displayed correctly to this era. Not only is this a classic story executed beautifully but gives an exciting insight into Australia's history and social background. The message of the book was definitively portrayed by each cast member and there was no sign of it quivering throughout the series. I read the book a few years a go and was a little concerned about watching it as it could have ruined my original enjoyment of the book but in my opinion the production team carried it off with a well deserved 10/10! Watch it if you get a chance as you won't be disappointed.

A complex novel, Cloudstreet was always going to be difficult to film, not only because of the number of characters within this book, the time span of 2 decades but also for the spiritual/metaphysical nature within the characters/plot.This series was a brave attempt to film this adaptation which was co-written by Tim Winton. The first night's episode was a slow exposition of the characters, glossing over, in parts, the events that would eventually lead to the 2 families meeting up at the house in Cloud Street. Those who hadn't read the novel may have struggled to understand some of the events or actions in this first night's episode because of the curtailment of description.The series, like the novel, calls for a perhaps a "suspension of reality" or perhaps, more accurately, a "leap of faith" to believe in some of the events portrayed. If a viewer does this, then the excellent casting of the lead characters allows you to enter fully into the inner life of not only the actors but also the house, which becomes a central character within the story also.Yes, there are quibbles - music that isn't appropriate to the time portrayed, modern street lights/blurred high rise apartment blocks in the background but then filming a period piece set in the 1940s/50s in and around Perth was also always going to be difficult. This is a city that has little of it's "older" character still present thanks to the "tear it down and rebuild" mentality of the 1960s and 1970s. Kudos to the production for not only filming here in Perth but for also managing to recreate the era successfully, for the most part. Winton's work is always firmly rooted here in this state, again the landscape/architecture being a character within his writing. To film it elsewhere would have been a compromise too far.