I think this might be the first time I've linked an article by a fashion correspondent, though this is Freeman's column that is not really about fashion. I really agree with this, and furthermore want to take the opportunity to issue a mea culpa for really inveighing against Baz Luhrman's Australia without actually seeing it. I've now seen part of it, and its clear that the criticisms made of this film at the time took the film much too seriously – as indeed did everyone else, as far as I can work out.