Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Cinematography
Those golden wheat fields that make English countryside look edible.
Acting
Julie Christie's face doing three hours of emotional calculus.
Costume
Bathsheba's riding habits that scream 'I own this land and your heart.'
Director
John Schlesinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Terence Stamp and Julie Christie had recently starred together in 'The Collector' as kidnapper and victim — their reunion here as passionate lovers reportedly amused the crew.
Schlesinger deliberately cast against Hardy's descriptions to modernize Bathsheba: Christie was blonde and urban, not the dark country girl Hardy wrote, making her independence feel contemporary rather than period-bound.
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