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Oscar & Lucinda
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0086162276637
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogFrench (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: May 25, 1998
Running Time: 133 minutes
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 31, 1997
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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The only boy who could ever reach me, was the son of a preacher man
I watched this again recently having last seen in on VHS some years ago. What was an excellent film then is even better now, particularly the sound which is a revelation where the tinking glass is concerned.
The technique of using a narrator does not always work but is it is most apt, and in particular at the end. One leaves after watching this film much as one does after a gourmet meal...extremely satisfied with what you have consumed but not wishing to eat another morsel and yet this ... Read More
Rating: - Stimulating and Satisfying
While it's true what other reviewers said about it being "slow moving at times" and "not for everyone", if you like a good story - happy and tragic - and beautiful (and sensous) cinematography, costuming, sets and an excellent soundtrack - this may be for you!
The product description says their lives are forever changed by their meeting - but this is far too simple and not true. The story of the changes in each of their lives (before they even meet) already has you gripped in fascination by the ... Read More
Rating: - I could watch it over and over
This is one of the lovliest movies I have ever seen. Part of the pleasure comes from the gorgeous actors (Cate Slanchett is a stunning brunette in this movie), costumes and scenery; the other part from the narrator's soothing voice, which takes the onus off the watcher and lays out details that a less gentle movie would make the watcher work for by inference. Perhaps others may dislike the narration (akin to the children's movie "Babe" in its fairytale cadence); I found that it brilliantly fleshed ... Read More
Rating:  - A Brilliant Failure
This film has all the elements of a grand epic. Had it been made in the 60s , it would have won the Academy Award. But something has happened to render the 'world' of the film oppressively neurotic and irrelevant. Do we live in a post-Christian world? If so, this may account for the desperate strangeness of the men of the cloth, who seem tortured and twisted and sick. They are either socially oppressive, trivial hypocrites, or tormented, lost souls, paralyzed by guilt and doubt or both. They all remind ... Read More
Rating: - One beautifully filmed butchered mess of a movie!!!!!!!! Reading the book will help immensely!
(May 1,2007 addition)As a short intro to my original review,I have watched this film several times now because there are things about it that have staying/growing power that is furthered only by reading the novel( which is quite different from the movie), but does help to fill in much of what this screenplay is missing.
If I was asked to give you a plot synopsis of this gorgeous film I would be hard pressed to say that OSCAR AND LUCINDA is about anything for sure.This is positively ... Read More
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