This is a film that, after even one viewing, you won't soon forget, whether you like it or not. It's magical, mystical, weird...altogether trippy. It's got romance, betrayal, danger...everything that makes a fairy tale great. Don't let that put you off though. This is a film with a heart and a message.
Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) lives on a dairy station with her boyfriend Rob (Karl Urban). They have a rather unconventional life, bathing and eating dinner in a large outdoor tub and experiencing frequent, surprisingly non-fatal, car-flippings on a nearby roadway. They also have a dog, Nigel, with such a bad case of agoraphobia that he spends most of the film walking around with a box over him.
When Rob proposes marriage, Lucinda is at first overjoyed, then concerned. Have they fallen into a boring domestic pattern? Even more troubling is a car accident in which Lucinda runs down an old Māori woman (Rangi Motu)...who proceeds to get up and walk away with a warning to Lucinda to "keep warm."
After confiding in her friend Drosophila (Willa O'Neill), Lucinda sets out to test her love, doing everything from cornering Rob in their truck for a romantic drink (only to be interrupted by a worrisome moo from one of the cows) to bathing in (and thus ruining the sterility and saleability of) one of the vats of milk. It seems that nothing can wreck their love until a favorite quilt goes missing in the middle of the night. When Lucinda figures out what happened and makes a ridiculous deal to get the bed cover back, she risks losing Rob and the life she knows forever.
No matter what else you do in your life, you must see this film just once and give it a chance. It's a genuinely silly, weird good time.
Overall:
Four stars
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