Gosford Parkour22/12/2008
“ Something strange happened to my face shortly after the beginning of Baz Luhrmann’s excruciating new wartime romance epic, starring Nicole Kidman as the posh English Lady Sarah who travels out to Australia in 1940, and Hugh “Russell Crowe is not available” Jackman as the bit of local rough with whom she falls swooningly in love. A kind of clinical shock caused the upper part of my body to go into a state of paralysis. The skin on my face became as tense and inert as Kidman’s forehead. My whole face was as taut as a snare drum, or the back of a saddleback pig. The roof of my mouth became locked as I tried to give a traumatised whinny of distress: “Nggg … ngggg … „
Peter Bradshaw didn’t really like Australia. Guardian, qui.
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