I liked this. It starts a little too slow, and is probably a good 15 minutes too long, but it does manage to suck you in and is strangely compelling in the last half hour or so. Anthony LaPaglia is truly excellent in the central role, and Geoffery Rush gives a very good performance also. It occasionally feels a little clumsy and the plot too coincidental, but there are a few stand out scenes and there's just enough quality to make this a easy and enjoyable drama.

Ultimately, it's a meditation on trust, and it explores trust through a number of contexts: between lovers, man and wife, therapist and patient, parents and children, neighbors, co-workers, and total strangers. The film asks when secrecy become deceit and posits that the closer you are to someone, the more you hide from them.

"Lantana is Ray Lawrence's Aussie rendition of Short Cuts, a multi-character relationship saga disguised as a bubbling thriller." - Ed Gonzalez

An interesting and stylish tale of entangled relationships. I was drawn into the story and the characters(very credible performances) and the wanted to know how things were going to be resolved.

Very slow but entertaining. I like movies that let me make dinner, take a shower and have a nap without really missing much.

I like slow movies but this even tried my patience. Even so it's still pretty good.

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Everybody in the whole of Oztrayliya raves about this flick, I hated it...

Hey, look at this coincidence and this other one, ooh I bet you didn't see that completely unneeded twist coming! This is what I felt the whole movie was saying. I enjoyed it until I gave it more than a second's thought and the whole thing fell apart at the seams. You can have all the twists and turns you want in a movie, but they have to be well crafted, not just thrown together simply for the sake of wowing the viewer.