![]() ![]() She’s a 19th century forerunner of Willa Cather-in love with the land and second to no man in strength and self-reliance. After inheriting a farm from parents who died young, her headstrong sense of undaunted pride and resolve amazes the men in the neighboring villages. ![]() The setting is the lime green valleys of Dorset in the 1870s, where Bathsheba Everdene is a woman ahead of her time. It rises head and shoulders above most of what we’ve been seeing lately. Still, its virtues are many and this filmed version of Hardy’s fourth novel is well worth seeing. Marred by casting mistakes and reduced to an outline of the Hardy novel, this study of a beautiful woman torn between the love of three men but unable to choose only one fails to capture both the vision of country life and the canvas of British geography so vividly detailed by Mr. Starring: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts and Michael Sheenįortunately, somber Danish director Thomas Vinterberg doesn’t even try to embellish or improve it. ![]()
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