Far from the Madding Crowd (2014 film)

Far from the Madding Crowd is a 2015 British romantic drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Juno Temple. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel of the same name by Thomas Hardy, the fourth time this novel has been filmed.

Gabriel has used his life savings to invest in a sheep farm, but he loses everything one night when a new sheepdog chases his entire flock off a cliff. After settling all his debts he is left penniless and leaves the farm in search of work. In contrast, Bathshebas fortune has changed as her uncle has left his farm to her in his will and she leaves for her newly inherited farm at once.While Gabriel is at a fair trying to find employment, local army men attempt to recruit him and other townsmen. A young girl, Fannie Robin, notices him and shares that one of the army men, Sergeant Frank Troy, is her sweetheart. She tips off Gabriel that a farm in Weatherbury may offer him a job. Upon his arrival Gabriel finds the barn on fire and saves it from destruction, and at dawn the next day he is introduced to the farms new mistress Bathsheba. She hires him as a sheepherder. In the meantime, Troy is left devastated when Fanny jilts him at the altar he does not realize she has gone to the wrong church. ........

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