The Sunday Leader - By Sumaya Samarasinghe
A new Stephen Frears movie is generally preceded by a buzz of excitement. After all, we owe him some of the most interesting, risqué, and creative pieces in British cinema.
Daniel Day Lewis’ career was launched thanks to My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick Up Your Ears, Dirty Pretty Things and Dangerous Liaisons, only to name a few from a long list of unforgettable movies which have all left their mark among cinema aficionados.
So many were a little surprised when it was announced that Frears was going to adapt a cartoon script by Posy Simmonds called Tamara Drew based on Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far From The Madding Crowd. The heroine Bathsheba has been replaced with Tamara Drewe, a newspaper columnist working for The Independent who mainly writes about herself. She returns to Ewedown, the village where she grew up to do up her old family mansion which her mother left her and since everyone in the village is bored to death, her arrival is going to cause quite a stir among the entire population.
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