The Price Of Milk

From its quilted opening credits, which literally unfold across the screen, to its fairy-tale ending, this is easily one of the oddest romantic comedies since MY NEW GUN. It's also one of the most visually inventive, and if its charms very nearly defy description, it's nonetheless irresistible. Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) and Rob (Xena's Karl Urban) are living happily ever after in unwedded bliss on a picturesque dairy farm, surrounded by 117 cows and Nigel, an agoraphobic dog who lives like a turtle beneath a cardboard box. All's well until Rob proposes marriage, with a smile and an offhand "Whaddaya reckon?" Lucinda accepts, but then goes into pre-matrimonial...