Baz Lurhmann's Australia

Being a good Aussie gal I have long awaited the premiere of Baz Lurhmann's news film Australia. The biggest budget film ever to be made in Australia was released last night in Sydney, Darwin, Bowen and Kununurra. I saw a sneak preview on the plane on the way back to Oz in November and there was a wonderful interview with the director of photography Mandy Walker who looks like she has done a stunning job with the images. Australia looks beautiful! Reports say Jackman and Kidman are fantastic but the young Aboriginal newcomer Brandon Walter is the best bet for an Oscar. Here's the plot. A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II. Australia centers on an English aristocrat played by Nicole Kidman who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctanctly joins forces with a rough hewn cattle driver the gorgeous Hugh Jackman. to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's unforgiving land only to face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbour only months earlier.

I am so bummed out that we have to wait till the 24th of December to see Australia in France. In the meantime I am stocking up on Vegemite and Iced Vo Vo's for the big day. Well done Baz!