Thomas Vinterberg wowed audiences with his new film The Hunt (read my review) all the way back at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and now its a major contender for Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Feature this year and the director is already back to work with Far from the Madding Crowd starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Juno Temple.
This morning Empire has premiered the first three pictures from the film, which is bsed on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, telling the story Bathsheba Everdene (Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. Bathsheba’s choices and passions explore the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has already acquired the film for distribution and the likelihood of this one showing up at Cannes 2014 seems almost inevitable.
Check out the two additional pictures directly below.
