The muscular yokel who was her childhood sweetheart blew it in their youth so he’s out. Gorgeous, pouting Gemma Arterton’s Tamara is a columnist for The Independent (in which the film was defensively tagged an “Aga saga”, although only one character, Beth, Tamsin Greig’s long-suffering wife of Nicholas, sets foot in a country kitchen to do any cooking), but Miss Drewe doesn’t seem to do much work, so busy is she exercising her sexual confidence and emotional confusion. All one can do is sit back and enjoy the foolishness unfolding and heading towards catastrophe. Each of them is neatly sketched in individual voiceovers of their paragraphs in progress.įrom here there are multiple points of view in which none of the characters know what we know, apart from a keen Hardy scholar (unsung American actor Bill Camp, outstanding as the observer of events). At a writers’ retreat in Hardy country a group of aspiring authors perch around house and garden penning projects in a multiplicity of genres. There's a suitably chucklesome opening to this smart comic fable of follies - adapted by Moira Buffini from the Posy Simmonds graphic novel very loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd.
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