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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
The movie focuses on willful, flirtatious Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful young woman who inherits a picturesque farm from her uncle and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
1941, Scotland, UK
17 April 1940, Hertfordshire, England, UK
18 January 1943, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
17 February 1934, Allestree, Derbyshire, England, UK
12 December 1936, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
2 December 1894, Wyke Regis, Dorset, England, UK
12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
12 November 1931, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
1 February 1923, Lausanne, Switzerland
27 February 1938, Manchester, England, UK
March 12, 2015
It's maybe not up there in the pantheon of British classics, but there's something highly relaxing and radical about the fact that Schlesinger articulates this classical story with breathy longeurs ...
May 09, 2005
Pictorially excessive but dramatically barren.
July 06, 2010
Christie has few real opportunities to branch out of her rather muted and pouty lead.
March 13, 2015
Everything in this extraordinary evocation of island life is seasonal; these folk, their affections and fortunes, shift with the winds and tides.
March 15, 2015
Splendidly lusty fare, its feet deep in the mud of the English countryside, its head in the lens-flared glare of a dreamy tragi-romantic sky.
April 29, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] Visually lush, and powerfully acted by a quartet of England's finest actors, John Schlesinger's "Far From the Madding Crowd" is admirable in spite of its imprecise narrative focus and flaws in its direction.
May 09, 2013
Thomas Hardy was not the most dynamic novelist in English literature, but this sluggish 1967 film still does him a serious disservice.
March 13, 2015
Mostly this is a triumph ...
May 09, 2013
[Schlesinger] displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations.
January 26, 2006
Another classic bites the dust.
March 09, 2015
One of the most entrancing and elemental landscape films ever shot in these isles.
May 12, 2015
With the emphasis on plot rather than character only Julie Christie finds a part she can turn round in, suggesting convincingly Bathsheba's curious combination of coquetry with integrity.