Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
First screened in June 2015
Director: Thomas Vinterberg. Cast: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, Michael Sheen, Juno Temple, Jessica Barden, Tilly Vosburgh, Sam Phillips, Bradley Hall, Hilton McRae, Harry Peacock, Victor McGuire, Jody Halse. Screenplay: David Nicholls (based on the novel by Thomas Hardy). Twitter Capsule:
Great character insight from Mulligan, Schoenaerts, Sheen, and Patterson, but camerawork is uninspired.
VOR:②
A perfectly solid instance of translating key layers of a novel to screen, if not all of them. That said, you don't feel your movie-year would have suffered if you'd skipped it.
