Oscar and Lucinda (film)
- Ralph Fiennes: Oscar Hopkins
- Cate Blanchett: Lucinda Leplastrier
- Ciarán Hinds: Reverend Dennis Hasset
- Tom Wilkinson: Hugh Stratton
- Richard Roxburgh: Mr. Jeffries
- Clive Russell: Theophilus
- Bille Brown: Percy Smith
- Josephine Byrnes: Miriam Chadwick
- Barnaby Kay: Wardley -Fish
- Barry Otto: Jimmy D' Abbs
- Linda Bassett: Betty Stratton
- Geoffrey Rush: Narrator ( voice )
- Polly Cheshire: Young Lucinda
- Gillian Jones: Elizabeth Leplastrier
- Robert Menzies: Abel Leplastrier
Oscar and Lucinda (Original Title: Oscar and Lucinda; Alternative title: Oscar & Lucinda ) is an American- British- Australian Drama from 1997 was directed by Gillian Armstrong, the screenplay was written by Laura Jones based on a novel by Peter Carey..
Action
The action takes place in the 19th century. The Australian Lucinda Leplastrier has a happy childhood. When her mother dies, she refuses, the family farm - as directed in the will - to sell. Later, she buys a glass factory for the money received.
Leplastrier travels to England and learns on the way back to the theologians Oscar Hopkins know who suffers from gambling addiction, which he tried to escape through missionary work. She enters into a relationship with Hopkins. At the end of Hopkins drowns in a river.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times 23 January 1998, the film bein keep dry sense of humor, to the well-balanced game the main character -forming. The camera work corresponds to the beginning of the standard of movies over the 19th century, but would later be subtle. The film would be as " playful " and " manipulative " as the filmed novel.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was a " fascinating in ( sense ) images told variation of the epic melodrama that sent the common behavioral patterns of the genre to " deny. He condense " the story to the sensitive portrait of two people who live outside the norms of their time and seek between the supposedly limited risk of a bet and the unpredictable risk of life their location ."
Awards
Janet Patterson was nominated in 1998 for Best Costume Design for an Oscar.
The film won the 1998 Australian Film Institute Award in five categories: film music, cinematography, production design, costumes and sound. Cate Blanchett and screenwriter Laura Jones were nominated for the same price. The film won the 1998 in two categories the Australian Screen Sound Guild Award and the Golden Reel Award for sound editing. Geoffrey Simpson won the 1998 for the camera work a prize from the San Diego International Film Festival. He won the 1999 Film Critics Circle of Australia Award; Cate Blanchett and Thomas Newman were nominated for the same price.
Background
The filmed novel was awarded in 1988 with the Booker Prize. Gillian Armstrong advocated that the lead female role has been filled by an Australian. This meant that Blanchett was preferred over the equally interested Meg Ryan, Winona Ryder, Sharon Stone and Uma Thurman.
The film was shot in Cornwall (England), in Sydney and in some other places in New South Wales and Tasmania. Its production cost was - according to various estimates - 16 million Australian dollars to 20 million U.S. dollars. The film opened in theaters in the USA on 31 December 1997; He was shown in April 1998 at the San Diego International Film Festival. He played in the cinemas of the United States, a 1.5 million U.S. dollars. In Germany 4916 moviegoers were counted.