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Dominican Rep. Oscar and Lucinda
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Drama
In mid-1800's England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that ... [+]
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"Keeping with the spirit of its lead characters, 'Oscar and Lucinda' is a movie best met with a gambler's faith: You may not be certain what it means in the end, but its magnificent payoff is nevertheless a sure thing" | ||
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"Despite some obvious overplotting, Oscar and Lucinda is a mostly effective and often affecting motion picture that touches our hearts while daring our minds to balk at its implausible coincidences" | ||
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"It exchanges the narrative fluidity of the page for visual composition of such strong beauty that the slowness of the storytelling becomes its own eccentric strength" | ||
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"A truly poetic movie whose physical production is just as impressive as its spiritual aspirations." | ||
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"A beautiful but annoying Victorian-era melodrama" | ||
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"It accumulates weight as it goes along, ultimately becoming as thoughtful and emotionally involving as it is beautiful to behold" | ||
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"A unique romance that has a sparrow's frail beauty" | ||
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"Armstrong is usually a strong and original director of actors. But here, her taste seems to have deserted her" |
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