The Price of Milk

Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) lives a fairytale life with dairy farmer Rob (Karl Urban), and his 117 cows. But after a freak car accident she decides to test Rob's love for her by trying to make him angry. He passes her tests until a quilt goes missing from their bed; the price of getting it back is high. Harry Sinclair's follow-up to Topless Women Talk about their Lives is quirky and romantic, but not especially fantastical — yet it won a trio of awards at specialist fantasy film festivals overseas. The fulsome soundtrack is performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

A shaggy, appealing parable . . . The Price of Milk throws itself onto the magic-realist sword with aplomp . . . skirts cute by a hair’s breadth — the only liability, really, is a floaty, rarefied musical score.

– American reviewer Edward Crouse, in The Village Voice, 9 February 2001

Key Cast & Crew

Danielle Cormack

As: Lucinda

Karl Urban

As: Rob

Harry Sinclair

Director, Writer

Fiona Copland

Producer

Rangi Motu

As: Auntie

Willa O'Neill

As: Drosophila