Michaël R. Roskam’s film tries to blend a flashy crime-thriller with somber romantic drama as it tracks the relationship between an affluent race car driver and a career criminal with a heart of gold named. But it fails.
Matthias Schoenaerts
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Film Review: “Far from the Madding Crowd”
“I’d hate to become some man’s property,” the forthright Bathsheba Everdene says to her gently spurned suitor. It’s 1870 in Dorset, England, and despite her penniless status, Bathsheba values her independence above everything, a nontraditional mindset that will serve her well when an unexpected inheritance bequeaths her a large farm. But over the course of […]
