Thomas Vinterberg's Far From The Madding Crowd

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (AN ART FILM)

An art film or art cinema is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is intended to be a serious artistic work, which is experimental and not adhere to mass audience. They are made basically for aesthetic reasons than commercial profit, and contain exceptional or highly individualistic content. It includes, among other elements, a social realism style, an emphasizing on the passion of the director. It focuses on the thoughts and dreams of characters, rather than presenting a clear, goal-driven story. A certain amplitude of experience and knowledge is required to fully understand or admire such films.

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In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Last Round , which won the jury and producers' awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. That year Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film The Boy Who Walked Backwards, produced by Birgitte Hald at Nimbus Film. In 2015, he released "Far From the Madding Crowd" an adaptation of the acclaimed Thomas Hardy novel. Vinterberg is the grouchy who, in films like Festen and The Hunt, captured the chill of life so acutely that it made your heart …show more content…
But against all odds, he has returned as a confident, comfortable king, with a graceful period adaptation under his grip. Far From the Madding Crowd, based on the Thomas Hardy novel – by way of a script by David Nicholls – stars Carey Mulligan and is produced by British film industry titans Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. Once he said that “It’s always been me-me-me-me all the way through my career. But in a studio movie like this, there’s a script, some executives – all very smart people – and as the director, you are not the king, you are a member of the board. I enjoyed that. I thought: let’s do this, as a commune, as a

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