A romantic drama centered around the beautiful and as independent as she is indecisive Carey Mulligan. Generally, I don’t like these 'romantic' films, referring both to the themes and the settings (the film is set in England in the second half of the nineteenth century), but in the end, I was swept away by the viewing just as if I were reading - indeed - a nineteenth-century novel by Thomas Hardy, the author from whose work the film is adapted. But Vinterberg, in the end, has certainly done much, much better and more interesting work.
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