![]() ![]() After watching the film twice I seem to have found in its hero a very valuable new acquaintance. The Mayor of Casterbridge (English, Paperback, Hardy Thomas) Author. ![]() Strangely enough the fact that this is a tragedy adds to its reality. A lavish period drama based on Thomas Hardys classic tale of a man who sells his wife and child at a market and begins a new life of wealth and respect as the. The wonderful picturesque town of "Casterbridge" and the carefully chosen landscape give adequate room to unfold the figures. Luckily his four main partners stand up bravely against this standard. Such characters do exist, Thomas Hardy knows how to describe them, and the actor seems to have learned every word about them by heart. The Mayor of Casterbridge is the unsympathetic portrayal of a man unable to control his own temperament, doomed by his own insensitivity, cursed by his own. Having at last watched the two-part DVD-version of Michael Henchard's fate I seem to have won a new part of the world for my horizon ! Ciaran Hinds with all his power represents the rise and fall of a complex character whom you must love, pity and despair of, all in the same moment. Somehow I never "found the time", though in the meantime I saw the film, read the novel and loved the story of "Far from the madding crowd" by the same author. Fifty years ago my teachers strongly recommended to read the "Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy for a study of English. ![]()
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