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	SPLICEDwire: "Oscar & Lucinda" review
		Lucinda has cards on the table of her cabin, which they both begin to toy with unconsciously as they introduce themselves.
		They arrive in Australia, where Lucinda is reminded of her fading infatuation on another man and a flustered Oscar sets out to find some way to win her heart, not realizing in his insecurity that he already has it.
		Marbles rolling around her cabin betray the rough seas outside, and Oscar's eventual proposal to endear himself to Lucinda proves to be a heavy vessel for emotional tokens -- he designs a church made entirely of glass.
	www.splicedwire.com /98reviews/oscar&.html (796 words)

	CNN - Review: Wager pays off for 'Oscar and Lucinda' - January 14, 1998
		Lucinda Leplastrier, far more of a go-getter than Oscar but every bit as quirky, has inherited a large sum of money from her mother and is heading out to start her own glass manufacturing company.
		Lucinda, unlike Oscar, is completely aware of how shocking she is to other people, and she wields it as a weapon.
		In "Oscar and Lucinda," the symbol of existential unrest is an ornate glass church that winds up getting dragged and floated across some of the most daunting jungle in the world.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9801/14/review.oscar.lucinda (1013 words)

	Press: Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oscar grew up in a tiny coastal village in southwest England, where he was raised by his father, a stern, ascetic minister of some God-awful fundamentalist religion and spent his bleak and horrific childhood looking for a way out.
		Lucinda was raised by a loving mother and grew up as a tomboy — "a proud square peg in a country that was nothing but rounds holes from coast to coast" — on a huge ranch in Australia.
		Lucinda's mother died when Lucinda was just reaching adulthood and, against her wishes, Lucinda was given a huge inheritance in place of the ranch.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentdfec.html (380 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lucinda is a teenaged 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 time.
		Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together.
		Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely.
	www.juggling.org /movies/title/Oscar_and_Lucinda.html (211 words)

	The Glass Factory in Carey's Oscar and Lucinda
		In Oscar and Lucinda, the factory, like the glass church whose material it produces, becomes a symbol of the decade.
		Oscar fills the role of the fairy prince, and the church's existence is a tribute to Lucinda's financial independence and her romantic sentiments for Oscar.
		Lucinda, Oscar, the church, and the past they represent disappear only to be remembered in distorted tellings.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /australia/carey/rosoff2b.html (1234 words)

	OSCAR & LUCINDA
		Oscar's father and his followers are portrayed as religious extremists/fanatics, while Oscar's mentor is portrayed as a drinker and is happily anxious to learn of Oscar's gambling-induced earnings.
		Lucinda notices that her mother is sick, and later we learn that she has died.
		Oscar's father slaps his young son on the head and throws his dessert plate into the fireplace after catching Oscar eating Christmas pudding (which his father thinks is blasphemous).
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/oscar_&_lucinda.html (1952 words)

	OSCAR AND LUCINDA
		Oscar and Lucinda are brought together by fate and become friends because of their shared love of gambling.
		Oscar gambles because it's the only thing he's ever been remotely good at and Lucinda is desperate to lose the inheritance she never wanted and become a "normal" person again (which she never was to begin with).
		Lucinda doesn't want Oscar to go, but this is his mission, his way to pay back God for his sinful behavior.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsO/f_oscar_lu.html (904 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Oscar and Lucinda" is the latest from Gillian Armstrong, the Australian director who did a splendid job with "Little Women" and is noted for her insistence on directing material with strong female characters.
		Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship and discover they are kindred souls, and their lives are never the same after their meeting.
		Strange, dreamy, puzzling, and offbeat, "Oscar and Lucinda" is another fine work by a director who uses her crystalline style to illuminate the struggles of independent women and the unconventional men who love them.
	www.eclipse.net /~tyrell/c_i_n_e_m_a/98_Films/Oscar_and_Lucinda/oscar_and_lucinda.html (848 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Oscar and Lucinda
		Oscar and Lucinda don't cross paths until about 40 minutes into the film but when they do there is mutual curiosity: Lucinda invites the terrified Oscar to her oceanliner room to take her confession (Oscar is scared of the sea thanks to childhood trauma) and they discover their shared love of gambling.
		Lucinda doesn't think he can do it over the rugged landscape and he won't take a ship, so they bet their mismatched inheritances on it.
		Oscar and Lucinda is a film with a few too many metaphors and a few too many plot threads (there are a number of subplots that I didn't even mention) that ultimately outweigh the tender love story at the core.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=14198 (972 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
		Lucinda Leplastrier (Cate Blanchett) is an Australian heiress who owns a glass factory and whose independent spirit is at odds with the conservative society in which she lives.
		Oscar and Lucinda is an adaptation (by Laura Jones) of the 1988 Booker Prize winning novel by fellow Australian Peter Carey, who collaborated on the screenplay.
		The lush scenery and visual imagery of Oscar and Lucinda are stunning--unforgettable is resonant vision of the delicate glass church floating peacefully downriver.
	web.cocc.edu /humanities/hir/film/oscarlucinda.htm (1220 words)

	'Oscar and Lucinda' portrays no ordinary love story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For her new movie "Oscar and Lucinda," Australian-born director Gillian Armstrong patiently endured 10 years of pre-production hell until her dream project of bringing Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel to the screen was finally realized.
		Armstrong recalls her struggles of bringing "Oscar and Lucinda" to life with fondness, despite the years of delay and struggles with finances and casting.
		But Armstrong and producers had a new obstacle to face with "Oscar and Lucinda." Fiennes had become so popular after "Schindler's List" that he became booked up with other film projects and wouldn't be available for "Oscar and Lucinda" for over a year.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /db/issues/98/01.21/ae.oscar.html (1339 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Oscar and Lucinda
		Oscar is particularly frenzied at the thought that his love of cards may be a form of pleasure-seeking instead of a method of finding salvation.
		Oscar, too, feels that we are put here as a wager and that his own compulsive gambling is a way of worshipping (for good measure, he gives his winnings to the poor).
		Oscar and Lucinda is a strange, doomed hybrid of an intimate picture and an epic; neither its chemistry nor its profundity is worth defending.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.29.98/oscar-lucinda-9804.html (465 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda
		Oscar and Lucinda: "A BROKEN THING, a miracle, a tragedy, a dream." That line, which comes toward the end of "Oscar and Lucinda," sums up the movie's shattered lyricism.
		Solitude and Enclosure in Oscar and Lucinda: Solitude and Enclosure in Oscar and Lucinda Marta Cobb '97 (English 168, 1996) In Oscar and Lucinda, although Peter Carey does not use the concept of the enclosed space as deliberately as Byatt, or as...
		Oscar and Lucinda: Oscar and Lucinda Running Time: 132 mins Rated: R Directed by Gillian Armstrong Buy Oscar and Lucinda on VHS at Chapters.ca With a critically acclaimed director, an Oscar-winning actor, and the...
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /B00066FB3O/Oscar_and_Lucinda.html (698 words)

	"Oscar and Lucinda' wastes fine actors
		In "Oscar and Lucinda," she casts Cate Blanchett in one of the title roles and is launching the Australian actress ("Paradise Road") into what ought to be a successful international career.
		Fiennes is quite sweet as Oscar, with acorn squash-colored hair that tends to stand on end and threadbare clothes that hang from his skinny body.
		That Oscar falls almost instantly in love with Lucinda, but is held back by a shyness that resembles that of a 12-year-old boy, is part of the movie's appeal but also its tragedy.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/e/a/1998/01/23/WEEKEND8042.dtl&type=printable (529 words)

	Film & TV: Betting on Love (Salt Lake City Weekly . 01-12-98)
		Lucinda is a strong, intelligent and driven woman completely unselfconscious in her independence.
		The story begins in Australia in 1848 with Lucinda, a "proud, square peg in a country where there were only round holes." When her cherished glass bauble (called a King Edward's Drop) breaks, it's a clever bit of foreshadowing that impresses upon the child the fragility of precious things.
		After Lucinda reaches womanhood and inherits her mother's fortune, she is sent to England with an "itchy impatience to grasp the working world." Her fascination with shimmering glass leads her to build a life on the material, though she knows from experience how easily it shatters.
	weeklywire.com /ww/01-12-98/slc_cinema.html (1131 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Oscar And Lucinda
		Their story, told as a long flashback, begins with Oscar as the shy son of a stern English minister, and Lucinda as the strong-willed girl raised on a ranch in the Australian outback.
		Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) has been introduced to horse racing while studying to be a clergyman, and is transformed by the notion that someone will actually pay him money for predicting which horse will cross the line first.
		Oscar is shy and painfully sincere, Lucinda has evaded her century's strictures on women by finding a private passion, and they would both agree, I believe, that people who worship in glass churches should not throw stones.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980123/REVIEWS/801230301/1023 (695 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Oscar and Lucinda
		"Oscar and Lucinda" is like an opera that's a collaboration between a crazed composer and a perhaps too-sane conductor.
		Oscar (Fiennes) is a young minister in training who discovers his love of gambling at Oxford.
		On board, he meets up with Lucinda (Cate Blanchett), a young woman whose mother's death has left her well provided for and who is returning to Sydney to run a glassworks.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/1998/01/23oscar.html (1119 words)

	Review: Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lucinda is forward and self-assured; Oscar is timid and uncertain of himself.
		But Oscar is uncertain of Lucinda's affection, and feels he must do something to prove himself worthy of her.
		Oscar and Lucinda isn't beyond a little manipulation to get the desired emotional response, and there are times when the storyline curves in preposterous directions.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/o/oscar.html (808 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oscar and Lucinda is the story of two gamblers who meet on a boat from England to New South Wales.
		Oscar and Lucinda was followed by another flop, the action-adventure The Avengers, after which Fiennes went back to his dramatic origins in The End of the Affair (1999) and Onegin (1999).
		Oscar and Lucinda uses some of the Hollywood traditions of period drama: extensive use of costume, colour, scenery and music.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2003/oscar.htm (2704 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oscar and Lucinda are soulmates, two people who don't really fit into mid-19th century society, but yet with each other, somehow they do.
		Oscar grows up in the Anglican Church studying to be a minister, despite the fact that his father is of a small religious sect that won't even observe Christmas.
		Lucinda grows up in Australia a free spirit; after losing her parents, she inherits quite a lot of money, which she uses partly to buy a glassworks factory in Sydney.
	www.toto.net /kcfilms/oscar.html (325 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oscar and Lucinda is such an imaginative and fanciful tale that it often requires an almost childlike imagination to completely digest it.
		Oscar and Lucinda is about love and other addictions, and the other addiction is gambling.
		Oscar as a young boy escapes the repressions of his strict minister father by running off to his father's more lenient Anglican neighbor.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /culture/movies/oscar.htm (593 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I suspect that this is a deficiency owing as much to the novel by Peter Carey on which the film was based as to Miss Armstrong's adaptation of it, but then she picked it, presumably.
		Oscar and Lucinda have a bet (typically) that the former, in spite of his fear of the sea, can deliver a portable glass church built by the latter for her previous clerical sweetheart, the Rev Dennis Hasset (Ciaran Hinds), in the outback before a certain date.
		Geoffrey Rush's narration, ostensibly the words of a late 20th century great grandson of Oscar, suggests that the only way to make sense of this miscellany of claptrap is as a sort of family history: “In order that I exist.
	www.jamesbowman.net /review.asp?pubID=824 (392 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda is a historical journey into the experience of coming of age within a developing nation.
		Oscar Hopkins is the son of puritan, harassed and harangued by his father to follow his faith.
		Thereafter, as Oscar and Lucinda meet and they agree on an ultimate bet (the plot device which underpins the latter half of the novel) I thought that the pace and flow of the novel slowed.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571153046 (1026 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Oscar and Lucinda
		Oscar is a red-headed misfit of a child whose mother is drowned off the coast of England.
		When Oscar senses a calling of his own-one that will separate him from his beloved father for the rest of his life-the reader begins to marvel at the boy's intelligence and dedication.
		Despite his hatred of the sea, Oscar sails to Australia, where he meets another misfit, Lucinda, who has purchased a glass factory with her inheritance and is determined to build a glass cathedral for a god-forsaken parish outpost in the Australian desert.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=3047546 (492 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gillian Armstrong's poetic and poignant new film Oscar and Lucinda is about such a great moment in the lives of two oddballs who are destined to meet and to fill each other with delight.
		Inwardly, Oscar bears the burden of betraying his severe father while Lucinda carries on the legacy of her strong-spirited mother.
		In order to prove his love for Lucinda, Oscar decides to deliver a glass church (a symbol of their mutual passions) to the exiled minister.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_4849.html (302 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda
		Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) is an Anglican priest and a compulsive gambler.
		Later, in a misguided attempt to win her trust, Oscar embarks on a foolhardy journey along the Australian coast with a glass church, on which he encounters several purgative difficulties he also hopes will redeem his soul.
		Oscar's sudden defence of aboriginal culture and vaguely hinted addiction to drugs happen so fast that there is no time for any of it to make dramatic sense.
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/oal.htm (751 words)

	Oscar and Lucinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oscar and Lucinda, the adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 book is a mess - a shining example of how not to adapt a novel for the big screen - especially one as lengthy as Oscar and Lucinda.
		Second, don't waste time on subplots that diverge from the main - such as the one involving Oscar's surrogate father attempts at gambling, or the governess Miriam - whose sole purpose is to (eventually) bring the narrator into being.
		Except for one scene late in the film when Oscar is seated in the middle of a barge surrounded by a glass church, like Arthur on the way to the isle of Avalon.
	www.panix.com /~crodell/97film/oscarandlucinda.html (302 words)

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