Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tamara Drewe (2011)


Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd), this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastorale is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex. Tamara Drewe’s present-day English countryside—stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows—is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown tail over teakettle. Tamara—once an ugly duckling—has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide.

Release Date:October 8th, 2011
Starring:
Gemma Arterton
Dominic Cooper
Luke Evans
Tamsin Greig
Roger Allam
19 more cast & crew
Director:Stephen Frears
Writer:Moira Buffini, Posy Simmonds
Studio:Sony Pictures Classics
Genre:Comedy, Romance

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