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- Tamara Drewe is based on a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, which was inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd; and after a spate of graphic-novel movies that aim, inexplicably, strenuously, and self-defeatingly to evoke their source material, it's a relief to find one that puts the spirit of the thing ahead of the form.
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Tamara Drewe. (film) Tamara Drewe is a 2010 British romantic comedy film directed by Stephen Frears. The screenplay was written by Moira Buffini, based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name (which was then re-published as a graphic novel) written by Posy Simmonds. The comic strip which serves as source material was a modern reworking of ...
Oct 8, 2010 · Tamara Drewe is based on a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, which was inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd; and after a spate of graphic-novel movies that aim, inexplicably,...
Sep 10, 2010 · Tamara Drewe: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper. A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
- (23K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Stephen Frears
- 2010-09-10
Sep 9, 2010 · The film is based on the graphic novel of Posy Simmonds's brilliant Guardian comic strip, which was loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.
- Kira Cochrane
Oct 12, 2010 · The two stand-out performances come from Bill Camp and Jessica Barden. Camp is arguably the true focus of the story. He might have the most screen time of anybody and every event seems to directly affect him. In a dramedy like Tamara Drewe, Camp finds a way to be the comedic relief for the comedy - strange, but true.
- Mike Eisenberg
Oct 7, 2010 · Very loosely based on Far From the Madding Crowd, Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe is Thomas Hardy twice-filtered: first through the skeptical-sympathetic eye of the terrific British graphic...
Oct 7, 2010 · Oct. 7, 2010. “Tamara Drewe,” directed by Stephen Frears and written by Moira Buffini, plants its cheeky flag at the crossroads of sex farce, pastoral and high literary polish. The spot of...
