Far from the Madding Crowd
by John Schlesinger

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• Best Picture/Best Actor - National Board of Review Awards! JULIE CHRISTIE rejoins the writer and director of her starmaking Darling on Thomas Hardy's tale of a rebellious country girl for whose affection soldier TERENCE STAMP, landowner PETER FINCH and sheep farmer ALAN BATES becomes rivals. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?PG Age:?883929036233 UPC:?88392903623

Movie Reviews of Far from the Madding Crowd

Movie Review: Far from the Madding Crowd 1967 - Julie, Julie, Julie.
Summary: 5 Stars

Summary of Far from the Madding Crowd

Thanks to cameraman Nicolas Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a cookie tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplays the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab

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