Far from the Madding Crowd | |
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Written by | Thomas Hardy Philomena McDonagh |
Directed by | Nicholas Renton |
Starring | Paloma Baeza Nathaniel Parker Jonathan Firth Nigel Terry |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Producer | Hilary Bevan Jones |
Running time | 56 minutes |
Production company | Granada Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 6 July – 27 July 1998 |
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel of the same name.
Will Joyner of The New York Times wrote a positive review of the adaptation: "Strangely, and to its great credit, this new Far From the Madding Crowd, which was produced by Granada Television in Britain and WGBH-TV in Boston, does not simply survive the viewer's tendency to compare and second-guess; it thrives upon it. At almost every turn of the deliciously gradual tale of romantic chaos, the new version is just as visually striking as the 1967 film -- some of the locations are virtually identical -- and is more naturally rendered dramatically, with a rough language truer to Hardy's blend of poetry and rural speech." [1]
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