The Price of Milk

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Summary: Strange things happen
Review: The Price of Milk is a movie that can only be viewed on its own terms. Strange things happen, sometimes revolving around a curse (moral: drive carefully), sometimes just because. There's a quilt, there are cows, and there's New Zealand mysticism (or something). Realism isn't the point.

There's a coherent plot in there somewhere, but the movie is as much a collection of unexpected events as it is a coherent narrative. This is at first charming and cute; an early scene with Rob and Lucinda sharing a bath is particularly nice.

The amusement level is high at first, but after a while the movie just gets tiring. After an endless parade of nonsense, I eventually started to wish that they would just get on with it and stop throwing in so many additional complications. It is, fortunately, not very long.

There's not a lot to lose by renting the movie (I found it in the Drama section, amazingly enough), but why would anyone want to own this? It's hard to justify repeated viewings when the whole point is that you're never quite sure what they're going to throw at you next.

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Summary: Creative, Funny, Witty
Review: 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.

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Summary: Creative, Funny, Witty
Review: 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.

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Summary: A charming little love story
Review: 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.

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Summary: An interesting visual performance.
Review: This is one of those quirky, but compelling, four O'clock in the morning movies. It is as much performance art, as it is a performance, and it is wonderfully done.
Set in the lusterous green valleys of New Zealand, The Price of Milk is a simple love story, involving a man, a woman, one hundred and seventeen cows, and a dog in a box (If you've seen one you've seen them all!). It's very pastoral, and sureal, visually, but the story line is full heart, laughs, and a little magic. It's the story of two lovers who have to learn what love is before they can really enjoy it. On their quest, with the help of friends, strangers, and one prophetic old maori woman who hates the cold, they eventually learn that what means the most can be niether bought nor made, but rather expierienced.
It is an interesting piece of work and the humor is Artsy. Like a painting that takes 90 minutes to admire.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: While traveling in New Zealand my husband and I went to see this film in Christchurch. I feel very lucky to have seen it in New Zealand since I would never had the chance to see it back in the United States. It is a lovely surealistic tale of love, not the quest for love but discovery of the difficulties and beauties of found love. I never buy films yet am in waiting for it's release on VHS or DVD. I highly recommend this film as a lovely change to the consistently simlar hollywood love stories we all know!