Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel “Far from the Madding Crowd” is lush and chaste, like a Victorian romance ought to be. Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Michael Sheen all give sympathetic performances, expressing a lot of restrained emotion with their faces.
From this week’s Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider podcast, here are Jeff Bayer and myself reviewing “Far from the Madding Crowd.”
B (1 hr., 59 min.; )