A girl farmer weds a faithless sergeant who is killed by her suitor, and realises she loves the bailiff..
Thomas Hardy, Laurence Trimble
United Kingdom
The Amber Furrows of Wessex Grainy beams of early amber stock flicker across the screen like lantern-light over barley, and suddenly Hardy’s earth is alive: sheep clatter through chalky lanes, thunderclouds bruise the sky, and Bathsheba’s silhouette—wide-brimmed hat, wind-whipped skirt—cuts a question mark against th...
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" The Amber Furrows of Wessex Grainy beams of early amber stock flicker across the screen like lantern-light over barley, and suddenly Hardy’s earth is alive: sheep clatter through chalky lanes, thunderclouds bruise the sky, and Bathsheba’s silhouette—wide-brimmed hat, wind-whipped skirt—cuts a question mark against the horizon. Director Laurence Trimble trusts the pastoral hush; he lets the landscape speak first, allowing furrows, hedgerows, and the salty Channel wind to argue for the inevitabi..."
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