Oscar and Lucinda

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Movie
German title Oscar and Lucinda
Original title Oscar and Lucinda
Country of production USA , UK , Australia
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 132 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Gillian Armstrong
script Laura Jones
production Robin Dalton ,
Timothy White
music Thomas Newman
camera Geoffrey Simpson
cut Nicholas Beauman
occupation

Oscar and Lucinda (Original Title: Oscar and Lucinda ; Alternative Title: Oscar & Lucinda ) is an American - British - Australian film drama from 1997 . 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 had a happy childhood. As a child, she received a Prince Rupert's Drop as a gift and has had a particular fascination with blown glass ever since. When her mother dies, she initially refuses to sell the family farm - as directed in the will. She later bought a glass factory for the money she received.

Leplastrier travels to England and on the way back he meets the theologian Oscar Hopkins, who suffers from gambling addiction that he tries to escape through missionary work. She starts a relationship with Hopkins. Hopkins ends up drowning in a river.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 23, 1998 that the film contained dry humor that the well-balanced play of the main characters produced. The camera work at the beginning corresponds to the standard of films from the 19th century, but becomes more subtle later. The film is just as “playful” and “manipulative” as the filmed novel.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "variation of the epic melodrama told in fascinating (meaning) images, which cleverly refuses to accept the usual action patterns of the genre" . He condenses “the story into a sensitive portrait of two people who live outside the norms of their time and who seek their location between the supposedly calculable risk of a bet and the unpredictable risk of life” .

Awards

Janet Patterson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1998 .

The film won the Australian Film Institute Award in 1998 in five categories: Film Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes, and Sound. Cate Blanchett and screenwriter Laura Jones were nominated for the same award. The film won the 1998 Australian Screen Sound Guild Award and the Golden Reel Award for sound editing in two categories . Geoffrey Simpson won a 1998 San Diego International Film Festival award for cinematography . He won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award in 1999 ; Cate Blanchett and Thomas Newman were nominated for the same award.

backgrounds

The novel was awarded the Booker Prize in 1988 .

Gillian Armstrong campaigned for the female lead to be cast with an Australian. This led to Blanchett being preferred over the equally interested Meg Ryan , Winona Ryder , Sharon Stone and Uma Thurman .

The film was in Cornwall ( England ), in Sydney and in some other places in New South Wales and in Tasmania rotated. Its production costs were - according to various estimates - 16 million Australian dollars to 20 million US dollars . The film opened in US cinemas on December 31, 1997; it was screened in April 1998 at the San Diego International Film Festival . It grossed around $ 1.5 million in US cinemas. In Germany, 4916 cinema viewers were counted.

literature

  • Sandra Blaß, Reinhard Weber, Cate Blanchett , pages 36–41, Fachverlag für Filmliteratur, Landshut 2006, ISBN 3-9809390-1-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Film review by Roger Ebert , accessed June 15, 2008
  2. ↑ Oscar and Lucinda in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed June 15, 2008
  3. ↑ Sandra Blaß, Reinhard Weber, Cate Clanchett , pages 40-41
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Oscar and Lucinda , accessed June 15, 2008
  5. ↑ a b Box office / business for Oscar and Lucinda , accessed June 15, 2008
  6. ↑ Sandra Blaß, Reinhard Weber, Cate Clanchett , page 41
  7. ↑ Release dates for Oscar and Lucinda , accessed June 15, 2008