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Tamara Drewe review by PV
Occasionally funny film - worth a look
(3) of (5) members found this review helpful.
I'd give this three and a half stars. Not quite four. Why? Because it's simply not that funny. There are SOME great scenes and gags, but not enough - and some of it is just plain farce - and unfunny farce at that. The characters are cariacatures and steroetypes too. However, I did LOVE the American author who struggles to write a word on the author's retreat! But I simply didn't believe that the main character could go from ugly duckling to admired beauty so easily - that kind of thing works on the page, in Hardy's original novel (Far From The Madding Crowd on which this is based), but not on the screen. Also, I had a problem with the wronged wife character - the writer and director clearly thinks the audience would sympathise with her or feel pity; all I felt was irritation and annoyance at how the woman was so pathetic and weepy and hysterical! Perhaps because the cartoon script in the Guardian that this is based on was written by a feminist? Maybe that's why. Anyway, this is worth a watch - and is funny in parts. One of the better comedies of the last year.
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Tamara Drewe review by TO
Boring
(1) of (2) members found this review helpful.
The film is boring and fails to catch one's attention. I could not even get to end of the movie. It is monotonous
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Tamara Drewe review by Sortilege
The Archers with sex and swearing
(0) of (0) members found this review helpful.
A considerable disappointment from the usually excellent Stephen Frears. This worked as Posy Simmonds' comic strip, as her illustrations were able to convey her mordant satire, but as a film it's just another not very well constructed melodrama. The two feral school girls were the best characterisations, and although everything was well played, it seemed like a waste of talent all round.
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