Rating of
3/4
A Love Letter to Australia
mitchellyoung - wrote on 07/28/11
This is Baz Luhrmann's "Gone With the Wind." The story is epic and spans several years, the cinematography and production design are elegant, and the performances are captivating. I think the film is a little unevenly paced; the first half is more tension-filled and, when the film moves two years into the future, it kind of loses momentum for a good half hour or so. It probably could have been edited down from its nearly three hour running length, but it's clearly a labor of love about a country and culture that is native to the director (and actors) and, because of that, it mostly succeeds.
