A chastely passionate romance between a gangly minister and a strong-willed heiress played out against the backdrop of the 19th-century Australian Outback... are we in bodice-ripping territory here? The answer is firmly no: Adapted from the Booker
Prize-winning novel by Peter Carey, this off-kilter epic revolves around the near-romance of Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes) and Lucinda Leplastrier (Cate Blanchett), but takes eccentric detours into gambling addiction, the genocidal displacement of Australian aborigines by European settlers and the
arcane world of glass production. The son of a Protestant minister (Clive Russell) so doctrinaire that his followers consider ...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
120 mins