Cine Me

 

 

The Eye of the Storm

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600207/

 

An intelligent, visually sumptuous drama that embraces the grandeur of the Australian literary classic upon which it's based.

 

Fred Schepisi here is classical and restrained, doing White's novel some honour in cinematic terms.

This is a splendid looking work - but somehow the brilliant parts, even the storm itself, along with a parade of beautiful Victorian interiors, are more memorable than the whole, for who could love, or even identify with these monsters of ego and old money.

 

In the end it's a febrile, melancholy artwork, like a late romantic poem or oil landscape: lovely surfaces but no hidden depths.