New Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But she tends to go too far. Admiring her ring while driving a lonely road, she has a run-in with an older woman that sets off a chain of events that begins with her quilt being stolen
Sometimes it's pretty openly treading water while inspiration flags. But there's more to like than dislike in The Price of Milk.
– Jay Carr,
Boston Globe,
13 Apr 2001
rotten:
Seems to be grasping for lyricism and whimsy and just missing.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr 2001
rotten:
I was never much convinced by the romantic chemistry between Rob and Lucinda.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
27 Apr 2001
rotten:
Too bad that unconscious haunting quality is in no way conveyed by the story, which soon reveals itself not as magical but silly -- and even irritating.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 May 2001
rotten:
Adds up to considerably less than the sum of its parts.