The Woodlanders (1997)

Regisseur:

Phil Agland

Drehbuchautoren:

Thomas Hardy (novel)
David Rudkin (writer)

Premierendatum:

6. Februar 1998 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury...

Plot Keywords:

Marriage Problems | Love | First Love | Costume Drama | Costume

Filmpreise:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Wonderful recreation of Hardy novel

Besetzung

Emily Woof	...	Grace Melbury
Rufus Sewell	...	Giles Winterbourne
Cal Macaninch	...	Dr. FitzPiers
Tony Haygarth	...	Mr. Melbury
Jodhi May	...	Marty South
Polly Walker	...	Mrs. Charmond
Walter Sparrow	...	Old Creedle
Sheila Burrell	...	Grandma Oliver
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Emily Joyce	...	Libby
Dawn McDaniel	...	Woodland Wife
Amanda Ryan	...	Sukey damson

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language.

Länge:

Singapore:95 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:PG | Spain:T | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | USA:PG

Drehorte:

Dorset, England, UK

Firma:

Arts Council of England

Dialogzitate:

Marty South: Oh, Giles, if only you could tell your heart to be free.
Giles Winterbourne: You can't tell the heart. The heart hopes. Most of all where it's hopeless.

Wonderful recreation of Hardy novel

I found this very involving and affecting in a way that I've not found other Hardy adaptations or the books themselves. It has an odd combination of modesty of style - no great acting showiness - and of the characters themselves, allied to an inspired and faultless control of light and mood.

It has an immense integrity - the recreations of the woodlander's homes and workplaces, as mentioned earlier the superb faultless control of the quality of light (longish scenes shot just after dawn, at dusk etc etc), the authentic period behaviour and manners, the unforced pace mirroring the mood. It is full of traditional understated virtues both the story itself and in the way it wears its technical virtuosity.

If Titanic (mentioned by an earlier reviewer) was a great clanking iron CGI mechanical monster, heavy handed in all departments, this is all living and breathing humanity on a human scale.