![]() ![]() ![]() For Oscar, gambling is not a sin but an embrace of the rules of chance that govern the entire universe: "We bet that there is a God-we bet our life on it!" There also is the thrill of the forbidden. ![]() Reading it, I was swept up by the humor of the situation, and by the passion of the two gamblers. "Oscar and Lucinda" is based on a novel by Peter Carey, a chronicler of Australian eccentricity it won the 1988 Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award. Soon they're playing clandestine card games onboard ship, and Oscar is as thrilled by her descriptions of gambling as another man might be by tales of sexual adventures. Oscar ( Ralph Fiennes) has been introduced to horse racing while studying to be a clergyman, and is transformed by the notion that someone will actually pay him money for predicting which horse will cross the line first. ![]()
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