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A charming little love story
This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. If you get the change, please see it! everything about POM [The Price of Milk] is beautiful. The New Zealand landscape is lush. The soundtrack [Harry Sinclair chose classical tunes!] mixes perfectly. It's a modern-day fairy tale. Danielle Cormack and Karl Ubran are both stars. They have amazing chemistry together, as two lovers. It is a simple, yet complicated love story. Lucinda and Rob [Cormack and Urban] live in the middle of nowhere, with eachother and their cows. What happens in the story is reminiscent of "Thinner" and involves a mysterious older woman. Without ruining the plot, the movie unfolds beautifully, with quirky little scenes that will have you chuckling in your seat. Nigel, Lucinda and Rob's dog, is a scene-stealer. POM involves bizarre fanciful events, mixing reality with a dream-sequence. The ony thing *wrong* with this movie is that it's on limited release, and like so many other fantastic NZ imports, most people will not get to see it. If you have the chance, please see this movie! And beg that it is released on DVD! It's a pleasure to watch - a movie in the pureset non-Hollywood sense.
An Acid Trip
First I have to say.....I rented this because it was getting such great reviews from everyone else who watched it. And I honestly can't see why they thought it was so great. It didn't impress me all that much. It was okay; not horrible. But I would think if I were ever on an acid trip, this film is what it would be like. Somewhere between them doing dishes in the bathtub and her collection of baby shoes, I got extremely confused as to how everything really fit together. Which is too bad, because all the actors did a fairly good job with what they were given. Three out of Five stars is what this film gets from me. Its okay, but don't get your heart set on something spectacular.
A Surreal Romantic-Comedy..
Price of Milk is a contemporary fairy tale with about love where a princess is exchanged for an ordinary girl, Lucinda. Rob, the prince, and Lucinda are happy and they are looking forward to getting married. The happiness lasts until the day when one of Lucinda's friends tells her that men want their women more after fights. In the process they end up getting their quilt stolen in the middle of the night, which adds to the looming predicaments. Price of Milk provides many different ideas that are presented in a surrealistic manner, which actually enhances the impact of the story. The ideas in the story also offer entertainment as well as self-reflection and in the end awards the audience with a clever cinematic experience.
Creative, Funny, Witty
This is definately my favorite movie of all time. It explores the idea of the "price of love", and what a person is truly willing to do to please the person he/she loves. Overall, a must see comically romantic movie.
One of my favorite movies ever
And with a yummy-licious lead actor. One of the greatest things about this movie is the way it was made. Director Harry Sinclair (Isildur from Lord of the Rings) picked some music. Then he found a location. Then he got his actors. And they made up the script as they went along-but you can't tell! The actors are so wonderful that they were able to go along with whatever Sinclair wanted, and still make it work. Absolutely lovely location, perfect music, and a great story. The characters are awesome-two young lovers (Karl Urban-sigh, wonderful man-see him as Eomer in LOTR) who are off their rockers, an agorophobic dog (one of the best parts), a gang of giant Maori faries, etc and so forth. Its set in a valley where magical things happen, and you most likely will need to watch it several times. But thats okay, because besides the great New Zealand accents, you will be laughing, crying, and hoping for a fairy tale ending. (Note, one person called it the Princess Bride on acid, and I do believe that was accurate-its utterly fantastical)
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