At first glance, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 Brit-lit classic Far from the Madding Crowd might seem like a strange career choice for director Thomas Vinterberg, he of former Dogme 95 leanings. Upon closer examination, however, his handsomely-mounted follow-up to 2012’s The Hunt shares many thematic similarities with that film, as well as his 1998 breakthrough Festen. All three concern people’s standings in their insular communities upended by chaotic circumstances; a few all too predetermined but most of them unpredictable twists of cruel fate…
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