Far From The Madding Crowd Movie Review, Far From The Madding Crowd Cast, Far From The Madding Crowd Trailer

Far From The Madding Crowd Movie Review, Far From The Madding Crowd Cast, Far From The Madding Crowd Trailer

Far From The Madding Crowd Movie Cast
Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker, Prunella Ransome, Alison Leggatt, Paul Dawkins, Julian Somers, John Barrett, Freddie Jones, Andrew Robertson, Brian Rawlinson, Vincent Harding, Victor Stone.

Far From The Madding Crowd Movie Review
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted from the book of Thomas Hardy. It was Schlesinger’s fourth film and marked a stylistic shift away from his earlier works which explored contemporary urban mores. The cinematography was by Nicolas Roeg and the soundtrack was by Richard Rodney Bennett. Original folk songs were also used in various scenes throughout the film.
It was nominated for one Oscar for best Original music score and two BAFTA’s, Best British Cinematography (Colour) and Best British Costume (Colour).







For many the casting of sixties beauty Julie Christie as the vulnerable heartbreaker Bathsheba Everdene was erroneous, but Christie does a fine job, and makes the role her own. Schlesinger remains faithful to the romantic spirit of Hardy, drenching the magnificent cinematography in the exquisite pastoral music of Richard Rodney Bennett, who clearly wrote under the influence of Vaughan Williams and Delius, while interpreting the story for the cinema very much in his own way. The film is long; but craftmanlike, and characterised by superb performances, withPeter Finch as the tormented Boldwood, and Alan Bates as Gabriel, who is the moral force within the story, particularly excellent. The film’s climax is one of the most hauntingly poignant in sixties cinema.