Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ FAK.hr [Croatian]
- Excerpt: Oku i uhu ugodno veliko razocaranje.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: An amazing meditation on yearning and the brimming hearts of three men and the woman they all want to marry.
- Robert Cashill @ Popdose
- Excerpt: Far from the Madding Crowd and other Blu-ray reviews.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Bathsheba’s three suitors represent…intimate friendship, sex and comfortable safety – but the new film flubs the character of the seducer…One cannot help but wonder what, say, Robert Pattinson might have brought to this role.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: A sense of duty and a desire to create pretty pictures … aren’t exactly compelling reasons to mount a cinematic adaptation of a celebrated novel.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Sturdy, somber adaptation, a sweeping romance redolent with sheep-dipping, hay-stacking and windswept moors.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: If you’re keeping score about such things it’s still Book: 1 – Movie: 0.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Ridiculously romantic in all the best ways, and more modern, more progressive, and even just plain more grownup that half the movies thrown at us today.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Thomas Hardy thought it was to move on from Jane Austen, so he wrote a female Mr. Darcy
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Dan Lybarger @ ArkansasOnline.com
- Excerpt: It’s a great thing that no one has told Danish director Thomas Vinterberg he’s adapting a classic.
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Vinterberg’s screen version of Thomas Hardy’s quietly feminist story is an exemplary adaptation of a literary classic.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: The film is good, because the people who made it clearly felt that it was a film worth making.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: It’s hard to imagine anyone surpassing the incomparable Julie Christie and her iconic performance in John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd, but Mulligan does it. In fact, she blows Christie right out of the water and that’s no small feat.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: The hoary old clichés of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd don’t exactly mesh well with director Thomas Vinterberg’s low-key, (mostly) naturalistic approach in this adaptation of the classic novel that generally succeeds, even if the 1967 Julie Christie version remains the definitive film version of this story.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Content with hitting the high points of the plot as a solid Masterpiece Theatre presentation might do, [bit] Vinterberg at least treats Hardy’s work with respect, if not a lot of imagination,
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Director Thomas Vinterberg and writer David Nicholls present Bathsheba’s life as a poignant tale of human weakness and ill fortunate, but Far From the Madding Crowd‘s most conspicuous pleasures are sensory rather than dramatic.