![]() ![]() ![]() The problem may be that the book is too deeply rooted in the kind of symbols and metaphor that work on the page but are cumbersome on screen, but the movie glosses over many incidents before we know what’s happening, and it never supplies the context that would help us figure out what one scene has to do with the next. It’s a movie of excellent scenes that don’t fit together. ![]() “Oscar and Lucinda” looks beautiful, it has a gorgeous musical score by Thomas Newman, and the actors - Ralph Fiennes as awkward, skittish Oscar and Cate Blanchett as confident, willful Lucinda - are well-cast. Writer Laura Jones and director Gillian Anderson have done a fine job of depicting all the key scenes in the book, which is about two 19th-century dreamers who make an all-or-nothing bet about transporting a glass church to the wilds of Australia (oh, that tired plot again!). Having read the novel, “Oscar and Lucinda,” I can’t imagine what audiences are going to make of the movie. ![]()
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