Far From The Madding Crowd
Following the struggles and adventures of Everdeen, a young attractive and smart girl, who attracts three men of the best men in her town, but she seeks independence and rejects all the secure qualities of marriage she has to run the farm she did her best to save.
28 December 1949, Dundee, Scotland, UK
21 July 1992, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England, UK
21 July 1989, London, England, UK
23 September 1987, North London, England, UK
30 June 1973, USA
1 January 1961, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK
21 December 1985, Lambeth, London, England, UK
8 December 1977, Antwerp, Belgium
May 25, 2016
There is plenty of desire on display here, conveyed in the tremble of the lip or in the intensity of the gaze, or in the deeply saturated colours of a hayfield.
May 23, 2016
It's really hard to fathom that Denmark's Thomas Vinterberg, co-founder of the radical Dogme 95 Movement with Lars Van Trier, could direct a picture so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull.
May 12, 2016
Such an inflexible adaptation results in a rather half-hearted screenplay that lacks the energy of its source novel, failing to arouse or thrill on any level.
November 15, 2016
On the whole, Schlesinger's Wessex trumps Vinterberg's, which suffers from one of the loopiest examples of miscasting I've seen for some time.
May 12, 2015
Vinterberg's classical, pastoral aesthetic recalls the heyday of the Merchant Ivory films, without the corny sentimentality of their lesser imitators.
May 11, 2017
Far From the Madding Crowd feels like a missed opportunity more than anything else, as instead of playing to the strengths of both author and director [...] it coasts on playing to the conventions of the same old stale period dramas.
May 12, 2015
It's beautifully old and atmospheric without feeling dated.
May 12, 2015
Moviegoers often say, "Forget about the book, even if it's a 'classic.' How does the film work on its own terms?" But that's the point: On its own terms, it's bewildering.
July 11, 2016
Madding Crowd would be a lot more effective if Mulligan's feminism didn't disappear to create plot points. But it is suitably well-acted and hits you right in the romance bone.
May 12, 2015
A good, solid version of this novel, guided by Mulligan, is still an achievement.
May 12, 2015
Carey Mulligan is an inspired choice to play Bathsheba... She's cool and confident; we come to respect her strength and appreciate that she doesn't need a man to be complete.
November 10, 2015
The movie places the swoonier love story aspects of Far From the Madding Crowd in the forefront, but it also, more interestingly, surfaces its coming-of-age qualities.
