Excellent Australian romantic comedy which isn't really a rom com - more a drama with humour and romance, but its bittersweet. There's some broad comedy around the edges - montages, wacky best friends - but at it's heart this is a truthful drama with nice, decent Richard Roxburgh falling for Frances O'Connor but the spice eventually goes out and they break up when they probably shouldn't, and he goes on to marry the One After (Cate Blanchett).
I liked the structure - around the wedding, with flashbacks - and the use of devices to tell the story, like the kid Roxburgh sponsors. Bright colours, and some excellent actors.
A very very good film, and it's a shame Alexandra Long didn't do more films (that were made, at any rate). Bob Ellis wrote lovingly of this film - his tryst with Long livened up the Sydney scene for a bit in 1999.
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