Monday, June 22, 2015

Jun 21st   
Far from the Madding Crowd** (12A)
(Odeon Covent Garden)                

(GB 2015)

The emancipated Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm and struggles to run it as she also copes with various contrasting male suitors.
Well made, slightly more sober and truer to the period adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel than the 1967 John Schlesinger version (to which this is a semi-tribute), with the story told mainly from the perspective of Gabriel Oak. This also undercuts some of the contributions of the other characters.

d: Thomas Vinterburg
s: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple, Rowan Hedley


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