The love story at the heart of the 1998 Australian film isn’t a swooning Hollywood fairytale. This is romantic comedy about people you actually know
Everyone is burdened by their body in Praise. Gordon, the 1998 Australian film’s gormless protagonist, played with slack-jawed charm by Peter Fenton, is an asthmatic who can’t stop smoking; a young man chronically allergic to the way that he chooses to live his life. And then there’s his love interest, Cynthia (Sacha Horler), a barmaid who is chronically allergic to everything.
“Wool, dust, soap, beer,” she tells Gordon early on, swigging straight from a brown bottle. She covers up her eczema in thick layers of make-up and takes just-less-than-lethal doses of steroids to control it. But none of it really works.
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