Romance in a different time
There's a death, a drowning, another death and a final reckoning. Lips quiver and a few tears are shed along the way. Far From the Madding Crowd is a costume drama, after all.
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VICTORIAN England was no place for a beautiful, headstrong and independent young woman - especially one in no particular hurry to get married.
Take the case of Bathsheba Everdene, the central character in Far From the Madding Crowd, a film based on Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel about rank (in both the social and military sense), rejection and romance in rural England.
A period drama set in the picturesque hills of England's West Country inevitably brings to mind any number of stiff-upper-lipped BBC series about women determined to make their way in a man's world, and this latest version of Hardy's popular book comes complete with sweeping landscapes, heaving bosoms and excessive facial hair.
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