FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (AN ART FILM)
An art film or art cinema is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is intended to be a serious artistic work, which is experimental and not adhere to mass audience. They are made basically for aesthetic reasons than commercial profit, and contain exceptional or highly individualistic content. It includes, among other elements, a social realism style, an emphasizing on the passion of the director. It focuses on the thoughts and dreams of characters, rather than presenting a clear, goal-driven story. A certain amplitude of experience and knowledge is required to fully understand or admire such films.
Latest one such movie which proclaimed success was “Far from the maddening crowd” directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel of the same name by Thomas Hardy. It is the fourth time that this novel has been filmed by different directors. But the pairing of the author and the director has been too good to be true assignment. In Vinterberg’s version, the characters are very lonely, more isolated. It provides a fresh take on a Hardy everlasting effect. The book has many funny parts –light and breezy, many moments of mysterious melodrama which can be written brilliantly on paper but very problematic to get right on the screen, but the director has done immense justice to those scenes. It is a story of a young lady “Bathsheba Everdene” who is a farm owner which she inherits from her uncle. She is a strong minded woman who wants to work hard and prosper in life without wanting to be called only someone’s wife. She knows that she will have to forfeit her autonomy if she ever accepts marriage. It tells the story of Bathsheba’s rise from modest country girl to a woman running a farm. The movie revolves around three potential suitors for Bathsheba, soulful, sensible and sober Gabriel Oak who is a sheep farmer captivated by her charming infatuation, wealthy, prosperous and lone farmer William Boldwood, and arrogant, reckless and eccentric Sergeant Francis Troy. Most of the …show more content…
In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Last Round , which won the jury and producers' awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. That year Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film The Boy Who Walked Backwards, produced by Birgitte Hald at Nimbus Film. In 2015, he released "Far From the Madding Crowd" an adaptation of the acclaimed Thomas Hardy novel. Vinterberg is the grouchy who, in films like Festen and The Hunt, captured the chill of life so acutely that it made your heart …show more content…
But against all odds, he has returned as a confident, comfortable king, with a graceful period adaptation under his grip. Far From the Madding Crowd, based on the Thomas Hardy novel – by way of a script by David Nicholls – stars Carey Mulligan and is produced by British film industry titans Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. Once he said that “It’s always been me-me-me-me all the way through my career. But in a studio movie like this, there’s a script, some executives – all very smart people – and as the director, you are not the king, you are a member of the board. I enjoyed that. I thought: let’s do this, as a commune, as a
An art film or art cinema is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is intended to be a serious artistic work, which is experimental and not adhere to mass audience. They are made basically for aesthetic reasons than commercial profit, and contain exceptional or highly individualistic content. It includes, among other elements, a social realism style, an emphasizing on the passion of the director. It focuses on the thoughts and dreams of characters, rather than presenting a clear, goal-driven story. A certain amplitude of experience and knowledge is required to fully understand or admire such films.
Latest one such movie which proclaimed success was “Far from the maddening crowd” directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel of the same name by Thomas Hardy. It is the fourth time that this novel has been filmed by different directors. But the pairing of the author and the director has been too good to be true assignment. In Vinterberg’s version, the characters are very lonely, more isolated. It provides a fresh take on a Hardy everlasting effect. The book has many funny parts –light and breezy, many moments of mysterious melodrama which can be written brilliantly on paper but very problematic to get right on the screen, but the director has done immense justice to those scenes. It is a story of a young lady “Bathsheba Everdene” who is a farm owner which she inherits from her uncle. She is a strong minded woman who wants to work hard and prosper in life without wanting to be called only someone’s wife. She knows that she will have to forfeit her autonomy if she ever accepts marriage. It tells the story of Bathsheba’s rise from modest country girl to a woman running a farm. The movie revolves around three potential suitors for Bathsheba, soulful, sensible and sober Gabriel Oak who is a sheep farmer captivated by her charming infatuation, wealthy, prosperous and lone farmer William Boldwood, and arrogant, reckless and eccentric Sergeant Francis Troy. Most of the …show more content…
In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Last Round , which won the jury and producers' awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. That year Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film The Boy Who Walked Backwards, produced by Birgitte Hald at Nimbus Film. In 2015, he released "Far From the Madding Crowd" an adaptation of the acclaimed Thomas Hardy novel. Vinterberg is the grouchy who, in films like Festen and The Hunt, captured the chill of life so acutely that it made your heart …show more content…
But against all odds, he has returned as a confident, comfortable king, with a graceful period adaptation under his grip. Far From the Madding Crowd, based on the Thomas Hardy novel – by way of a script by David Nicholls – stars Carey Mulligan and is produced by British film industry titans Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. Once he said that “It’s always been me-me-me-me all the way through my career. But in a studio movie like this, there’s a script, some executives – all very smart people – and as the director, you are not the king, you are a member of the board. I enjoyed that. I thought: let’s do this, as a commune, as a