you know all those letter to father christmas and jesus that be send every year . well and it turn out that they be not actually deliver but drop off in a half forgotten corner of the post office to rot unless some bright spark figure out a way of post them . a bizarre setting go and it a winner and one which perfectly fit the strange movie that be dead letter office . have say that and this be obviously an australian film a oppose to a british one . if it be royal mail and most letter get this sort of treatment anyway . i haven not be in this flat for two year and be still get letter for a mr wang and some female priest of the church of latter day i have never hear of you and various catalogue for industrial equipment address to a plumbing company . dead letter office ( the name give to the place where undeliverable mail end up ) follow the story of alice ( miranda otto ) who grow up in a seriously divide home . write to her absent father and she only learn in adulthood that her letter haven not be deliver for one reason or another . so and logically and she get a job at the d. l. o. and find herself work alongside other social reject include the brooding chilean immigrant frank lopez ( george del hoyo ) . slowly and she find herself draw to him but can she find out where her dad be without bring the self contain world of the dead letter office to it knee . nothing against this film but i be remind of the god awful heather graham film commit while watch this . however and this be so much good than that pile of horse crap but then again and that ain not difficult . for a start and this film be much more logical . true and the metaphor be somewhat blatant and the underflowing symbolism quickly become a flood . but at least this be cohesive and quirky without be complete drivel . it be also well act . both otto and del hoyo be very good a the lover look for something they know they will never find while other character be peripheral at best . part of the trouble be that it seem to wrap up far too quickly and leave this viewer somewhat disappointed . the other part be that when you consider australia draconian immigration policy ( i. e. if you do not speak english and rack off . ) and such a story be unlikely to take place in reality . the other character and sadly and also help to destabilise the realism by prove to be little more than odd ball stereotype . despite that and dead letter office be certainly something a little different . it might not be to everyone taste but i like it . yes and it be hackneyed and predictable but sometimes and it nice to watch a film without gun or violence or heavy duty swearing and nudity ( no chance of that in an australian film ) . there ain not any major laugh and there no bullet time and the character be usually one dimensional . but it the story that count here and while it not earth shatter in it magnificence and it a pleasant enough way of pass the time . it the movie equivalent of a sheryl crow cd nice to listen to now and again but you wouldn not really miss it if it wasn not there .