Mischievous Australian director Baz Luhrmann is not a man to be hurried, given that this is his fourth film in 17 years. The man takes his time, and this love letter to the country that spawned him is every bit as sprawling as the time it took to shoot.
There’s really not much going on. Cranky English posh woman Nicole Kidman travels Down Under to sell the farm on which her husband died, and falls for buff drover Hugh Jackman – and Australia for that matter – while messing about with cattle.
But that’s not the point of Luhrmann, whose amusing theatrical touch makes such shallow tales horrendously entertaining.
Just don’t take it too seriously.
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