The movie focuses on willful, flirtatious Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful young woman who inherits a picturesque farm from her uncle and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
1 January 1903, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
13 January 1944, Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
12 November 1931, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
7 February 1904, Kensington, London, England, UK
18 May 1923, England, UK
17 April 1940, Hertfordshire, England, UK
28 September 1916, South Kensington, London, England, UK
17 February 1934, Allestree, Derbyshire, England, UK
2 December 1894, Wyke Regis, Dorset, England, UK
27 February 1938, Manchester, England, UK
25 October 1911, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, England, UK
20 November 1909, London, England, UK
1925, England, UK
1948, Guyana
14 April 1940, Chabua, Assam Province, British India [now Assam, India]
6 March 1939, Devon, England, UK
27 February 1930, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 August 1931, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
24 May 1944, London, England, UK
23 March 1921, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
March 23, 1921 in Poole, Dorset, England, UK
23 March 1929, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1 June 1944, Salford, Manchester, England, UK
18 February 1910, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
May 12, 2015
With the emphasis on plot rather than character only Julie Christie finds a part she can turn round in, suggesting convincingly Bathsheba's curious combination of coquetry with integrity.
May 09, 2013
[Schlesinger] displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations.
July 06, 2010
Christie has few real opportunities to branch out of her rather muted and pouty lead.
March 09, 2015
One of the most entrancing and elemental landscape films ever shot in these isles.
January 26, 2006
Another classic bites the dust.
March 13, 2015
Mostly this is a triumph ...
March 13, 2015
Everything in this extraordinary evocation of island life is seasonal; these folk, their affections and fortunes, shift with the winds and tides.
March 15, 2015
Splendidly lusty fare, its feet deep in the mud of the English countryside, its head in the lens-flared glare of a dreamy tragi-romantic sky.
April 29, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] Visually lush, and powerfully acted by a quartet of England's finest actors, John Schlesinger's "Far From the Madding Crowd" is admirable in spite of its imprecise narrative focus and flaws in its direction.
March 12, 2015
It's maybe not up there in the pantheon of British classics, but there's something highly relaxing and radical about the fact that Schlesinger articulates this classical story with breathy longeurs ...
May 09, 2013
Thomas Hardy was not the most dynamic novelist in English literature, but this sluggish 1967 film still does him a serious disservice.
May 09, 2005
Pictorially excessive but dramatically barren.
