FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Love story
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Just out on DVD, John Schlesinger’s 1967 classic Far from the Madding Crowd features Julie Christie at the height of her powers — and her beauty. But the film has more than that to recommend it: It’s the best adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s best novel, and it’s one of the finest period pieces we’ve seen.
Christie’s Bathsheba Everdene is a young woman who inherits an English farm; bucking 19th-century tradition, she decides to manage the estate herself, and in the process she attracts three would-be paramours: wealthy William (Peter Finch), raffish Frank (Terence Stamp), and relatively simple Gabriel (Alan Bates). Schlesinger’s direction is sure and unhurried, and Nicolas Roeg’s cinematography is stunning: Britain’s countryside never looked so good.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd
