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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) directed by Thomas Vinterberg, screenplay by David Nicholls, with Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene, Matthias Schoenaerts as Farmer Oak, Michael Sheen as Mr Boldwood, Tom Sturridge as Sergeant Troy and Juno Temple as Fanny Robin. [12] [13]
Set in the rural West Country in Victorian England in the mid 1860s, [5] the story features Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong, independently minded woman who inherits her uncle's farm and decides to manage it herself. This engenders some disapproval from the local farming community.
The film is set in 1870 in Britain. While working on her aunt's farm in Dorset, Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) meets neighbouring farmer, Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts). He eventually proposes, but the headstrong Bathsheba declines, saying she is too independent. One night, Gabriel's new sheepdog herds his entire flock off a steep cliff.
Katniss's first name comes from the edible arrowhead plant, [4] which was known as katniss in the language of the Lenape. [5]Her last name comes from Bathsheba Everdene, the central female character in the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
Baeza has acted in a number of films and television programmes, including the 1998 film Far from the Madding Crowd playing the leading role of Bathsheba Everdene, [5] and the 2008 BBC production The Passion as Mary Magdalene. [4] She has also performed on stage, including Navy Pier in 2000 and The Flight Into Egypt in 1996. [4]
The house was used as the Bathsheba Everdene's house in the acclaimed 1967 film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd. It was considerably and sympathetically restored in the 1970s. The present owner, horticulturalist Martin Lane Fox, acquired the house in 1997 and has considerably remodelled the garden. The house is currently being sold (2014).
Curigwen Lewis (1 November 1905 – 17 February 1992) was a Welsh actress of stage and screen.. She was born in Llandrindod Wells as Martha Curigwen Lewis. In 1939 she married actor Andrew Cruickshank, [1] with whom she appeared in two episodes of Dr. Finlay's Casebook.
Thomas Hardy's Wessex tragedy sees the emancipated Bathsheba Everdene inherit her father's farm, and change the lives of 3 men. BBC Radio 4 9 May 1990 (Recorded on 17 January 1990) Bright as a Light, Simple as a Ring: Catherine Czerkawska