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Director Stephen Frears ('The Queen') brings to life Posy Simmonds' comic strip serialised in The Guardian from 2005-2007, starring Gemma Atherton (St Trinians, Quantum of Solace) as glamorous newspaper columnist Tamara Drewe.
Once a shy and unattractive teenager from a small rural idyll, Tamara's past catches up with her when she returns to the village and has to face an old flame.
Once a shy and unattractive teenager from a small rural idyll, Tamara's past catches up with her when she returns to the village and has to face an old flame.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I am surprised at the low star rating for this film. I really enjoyed it. Perfect for a rainy afternoon and I have seen some films with higher ratings that are awful. This is a good film.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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As most viewers are probably aware the story is a loose updating of Hardy's "Far from the madding crowd" and focuses on the amorous machinations in a small Dorset community that are provoked by the return of Tamara Drewe to her home village from metropolitan London.
I am quite surprised at the relatively low rating for this film by other Amazon users. I found it an extremely funny, gently cruel movie, which touches lightly on some of the more confusing and painful truths of life, love, adultery and desire. In focussing upon the misadventures of folk associated with a writers' retreat in the village the viewer can take some comfort from the thought their schadenfreude is at the expense, for the most part, of a very egocentric and often unpleasent group of individuals. Of course the innocent and sympathetic get hurt in the process: that this truth is clearly put gives an appealing edge to the film and marks it out from the general, forgettable horde of rom-coms.
The cast are excellent but special mention must be made of Jessica Barden and Charlotte Christie who are particularly brilliant as the two bored local schoolgirls who act as a sort of Chorus to the antics of the adults of the village.
I am quite surprised at the relatively low rating for this film by other Amazon users. I found it an extremely funny, gently cruel movie, which touches lightly on some of the more confusing and painful truths of life, love, adultery and desire. In focussing upon the misadventures of folk associated with a writers' retreat in the village the viewer can take some comfort from the thought their schadenfreude is at the expense, for the most part, of a very egocentric and often unpleasent group of individuals. Of course the innocent and sympathetic get hurt in the process: that this truth is clearly put gives an appealing edge to the film and marks it out from the general, forgettable horde of rom-coms.
The cast are excellent but special mention must be made of Jessica Barden and Charlotte Christie who are particularly brilliant as the two bored local schoolgirls who act as a sort of Chorus to the antics of the adults of the village.
66 of 72 people found the following review helpful
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This is an enjoyable film but not a remarkable one. Based quite faithfully on Posy Simmonds' 'Guardian' cartoon strip, which eventually became a 'graphic novel', it adapts some elements in Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd' to a modern English rural setting. Tamara returns to the village in which she was brought up to renovate and eventually sell her former home. A kind of voluptuous innocent, she has affairs with Ben Sergeant, a scowling pop guitarist, and Nicholas Hardiment, the fairly loathsome local author (who runs with his unfortunate and much betrayed wife a retreat for aspiring writers). All the while she is idolised by the decent young lad with whom she grew up, Andy Cobb. The guitarist drifts away, the author gets his come-uppance bigtime and all is well at the end.
There are parallels with Hardy in character and situation but not at all in atmosphere. There are moments of genuine pathos in the film, particularly with Hardiment's wife Beth, but it is largely gently humorous, with absurd situations playing off each other to raise a smile. It is always watchable and often funny. On the level of pleasant entertainment, it succeeds.
The film is very well cast and very well made. Gemma Arterton, who has real screen presence, is excellent as Tamara. Roger Allam and Tamsin Greig as the Hardiments are absolutely right for their roles, and indeed Tamsin Greig is one of the big plusses of the film. Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper and Luke Evans are all fine as a kindly American writer, the smouldering guitarist and the decent Gabriel Oak figure. There has to be a special word for Jessica Barden, really first-rate as Jody, a star-struck fifteen-year-old whose adolescent interference sparks some important plot developments. It's well directed by Stephen Frears and the countryside looks just a little to good to be true, which is as it should be in this film.
Recommended? Yes. Should you cancel everything to rush to the cinema to see it? I don't think so ; but it's good.
There are parallels with Hardy in character and situation but not at all in atmosphere. There are moments of genuine pathos in the film, particularly with Hardiment's wife Beth, but it is largely gently humorous, with absurd situations playing off each other to raise a smile. It is always watchable and often funny. On the level of pleasant entertainment, it succeeds.
The film is very well cast and very well made. Gemma Arterton, who has real screen presence, is excellent as Tamara. Roger Allam and Tamsin Greig as the Hardiments are absolutely right for their roles, and indeed Tamsin Greig is one of the big plusses of the film. Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper and Luke Evans are all fine as a kindly American writer, the smouldering guitarist and the decent Gabriel Oak figure. There has to be a special word for Jessica Barden, really first-rate as Jody, a star-struck fifteen-year-old whose adolescent interference sparks some important plot developments. It's well directed by Stephen Frears and the countryside looks just a little to good to be true, which is as it should be in this film.
Recommended? Yes. Should you cancel everything to rush to the cinema to see it? I don't think so ; but it's good.
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Rambling Ramblers
"Don't watch that film," is never a reassuring statement when you are about to watch a movie. It appears that my friends found `Tamara Drewe' to be a boring a confusing piece of... Read more
Published 15 days ago by Sam
Tamara Drewe
Very funny and perceptive look at life and people's reactions when a glamorous young woman appears in the village. Filmed in lovely countryside.
Published 1 month ago by Caroline Holloway
Midsomer meets Emmerdale!
After watching this film for the first time, during the course of which I quickly became aware that I didn't have a clue what was going on, I was almost in an indecent haste to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by DoDo Fan
"..GREAT BRITISH COMEDY.."
This is a very nice little British film with a great cast of characters and a wild and tainted story of love and sex all centred around the lovely Tamara played by the beautiful... Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Drury
Feelgood Film
Simailar to Hot Fuzz-a big city character arrives in a southwestern English village and stirs things up -charming but a little silly towards the end.
I enjoyed this. Read more
I enjoyed this. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Evdama
so Quintessentially English
.(THE FILM):
Once the ugly duckling of the rural Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns as a glamorous high flying journalist, ruffling feathers, rekindling old... Read more
Once the ugly duckling of the rural Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns as a glamorous high flying journalist, ruffling feathers, rekindling old... Read more
Published 2 months ago by S. F. husseiny
An excellent Brit film, for a change
Only sixteen five star reviews for this great film compared to twenty one star ratings? This won't do at all! Read more
Published 2 months ago by McRonson
Candy
I finally watched this film three months after getting it, and am not sure I will ever watch it again, because the story is too thin and the characters are stereotypes. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stephen Bishop
satisfaction
This is a great film,very English and very funny,It proves yet again that good entertainment does not need a budget of countless millions of $. Another for my library.
Published 3 months ago by A. P. Logan
Absolutely Hilarious!
If you take this film on face value... it will be confusing and empty.
I studied A Level English, and most particularly Hardy. Read more
I studied A Level English, and most particularly Hardy. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Izzy
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