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Name: Far from the Madding Crowd
Released: 1967-10-18
Cast: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker

Far from the Madding Crowd

PG
2h 50m
1967

64%

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Academy Award winner Julie Christie stars as a beautiful and fiercely independent English woman of the 19th century in this lush and moving adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romantic novel Far From The Madding Crowd. When proud, headstrong and unmarried Bathsheba Everdene (Christie) inherits a farm, she becomes a woman of independent means. Although three men court her, Bathsheba refuses to settle for less than a perfect suitor...which she will never find. But after she does agree to marry, Bathsheba realizes the mistakes she has made--and the damage her actions have caused.

Director:

John Schlesinger

Producer:

Joseph Janni

Writer:

Frederic Raphael

Cast:

Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker, Prunella Ransome, Alison Leggatt, Paul Dawkins, Julian Somers, John Barrett, Freddie Jones

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

64%

Reviews

Harper's Magazine

Robert Kotlowitz

There is so little authentic feeling in Far From the Madding Crowd.

I expected a movie to make me stand up and cheer or at least sit up and take notice. Instead it's curl-up and doze-fitfully time.

February 27, 2020

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Los Angeles Free Press

Gene Youngblood

I haven't walked out on a film in years; it was a depressing experience.

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.

[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.

June 25, 2017

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