Fox Searchlight has released a new Far from the Madding Crowd trailer for director Thomas Vinterberg’s (The Hunt) adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel. The romantic drama stars Carey Mulligan as a young, independent woman who inherits a fortune and then becomes the target of three very different suitors: a sheep farmer (Matthias Schoenaerts), a reckless Sergeant (Tom Sturridge), and a prosperous bachelor (Michael Sheen). This looks to be a captivating film that’s not only emotionally involving, but also visually fetching. Mulligan also appears to be delivering a swell performance (no surprise there), and I’m eager to see how the adaptation plays out on the big screen.
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