Thomas (Festen) Vinterberg turns out to be a half-eccentric, half-inspired choice to direct Thomas Hardy’s rural tragedy, nearly 50 years after John Schlesinger’s classic adaptation
John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd must be the hardest act to follow in cinema history.
Thomas Vinterberg and his screenwriter David Nicholls take a fair stab at it in this eccentrically cast film. It is a faintly rushed, crushed version: a quart-in-a-pint-pot account of the novel without the sunlit expansiveness of the earlier, longer movie. This one skips smartly and with sometimes rather dreamlike suddenness from famous moment to famous moment (although that effect may admittedly be a result of overfamiliarity with the 1960s film).
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