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Moviola > Films > Tamara Drewe Tamara Drewe (15) 109 mins
Based on Posy Simmonds's beloved graphic novel (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd), this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy's Wessex. Tamara Drewe's present-day English countryside - stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star (Dominic Cooper), and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows - is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara - once an ugly duckling - has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from a nose job). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighbouring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book - sex appeal. Filmed in Moviola's home village of Yetminster! "Funny, saucy and marvellously acted. A dark plot in the final reel does clash somewhat with the genial tone, but it's never anything less than entertaining." Cannes 2010 "Frears juggles the plot's elements with a light but firm touch, as we cycle through the seasons and the characters hop from bed to bed... Tamara Drewe isn't Frears's best film, but it's decidedly his - a very British movie built on universal truths, and a human comedy that stays humane. " The Independent Eye For more information, and to see a trailer and stills, visit the official website at www.sonyclassics.com/tamaradrewe
Showing: 13-Apr Fontmell Magna 14-Apr Yarcombe 15-Apr Fordingbridge
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