Far From the Madding Crowd looks like it falls firmly in Fox Searchlight’s wheelhouse (in the period film way, not the quirky indie way), which seems like a good thing in this case. The Thomas Hardy adaptation stars Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Matthias Schoenaerts, (who you can currently see in The Drop) and Tom Sturridge (Effie Gray) and looks like one of those gorgeous high caliber pieces I’ll never see on my own, but will be glad I did once someone else drags me to it.
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