Tamara Drewe

[yoco]

Release Date: October 8, 2010 (NY, LA)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenwriter: Moira Buffini
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp, Tamsin Greig
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some sexuality)

A live-action feature adaptation of Posy Simmonds' acclaimed graphic novel "Tamara Drewe."

Gemma Arterton ("Quantum of Solace," upcoming "Clash of the Titans" and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time") will play Drewe, a sexy flirt who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Simmonds' novel, itself a collection of comic strips she first published in U.K. newspaper the Guardian, is a modern reimagining of Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Far From the Madding Crowd."

[slikrapid]

pathetic, a 'new' girl (not really new, she just made a nose job and became...a new person! yeah, right, its more like something the esthetic surgery industry would promote) comes in a small town and everyone goes crazy about her (tamara drewe that drew attention and that drew a portrait of the local community), becoming the main topic of all their conversations - they have obviously worn out all of their other themes, even though they are supposed to be literary types which may imply an abundance of material to chew on...so it must be their closed-mindedness that presents an obstacle here (or so we are led to believe)

when one finds out that the author of the novel, upon which this movie is based, is versed in ridiculing the middle-class and has been accepted to the uk royal society of literature, it makes more sense, since one of the globalization goals is to eradicate the middle-class, leaving their dream-society consisting of a small number of the rich elite and a vast majority of poor/near-poverty struggling low-class industry & co. exploited slaves, thus a 'royal' nod was granted to the author for giving her contribution to elite's 'cause'...and we thought it was just an innocent entertaining movie, eh? well, think again