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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
27 February 1930, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 March 1929, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
12 December 1936, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
1948, Guyana
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 ...
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.
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
[Schlesinger] displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations.
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.
May 09, 2005
Pictorially excessive but dramatically barren.
March 13, 2015
Mostly this is a triumph ...
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.
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.
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.
