Bring a Baby: Tamara Drewe (15)

30 September 2010

Cinema

Bring a Baby is chance for parents and carers to catch up on DCA's films. You can bring your buggies and prams into the cinema and we provide changing mats too. Screenings are exclusively for adults with a baby who is 15 months or under. No more than two adults per baby, please. DCA is one of Dundee's most baby friendly places - we welcome breast feeding mothers, can warm up a bottle for you, provide baby changing facilities and we'll even help you park your pram in the cinema.

Originally published as a weekly comic strip in The Guardian, Tamara Drewe was Posy Simmonds’ modern reworking of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth century novel Far from the Madding Crowd. No better man than veteran director Stephen Frears to bring the original spirit of the comic to the big screen. Set in a picturesque, twee rural village, Tamara Drewe is a film where dark and dangerous passions play out against a backdrop of thatched roofs and always sunny English countryside.

Bond-girl Gemma Arterton is Tamara, a modern Bathsheba who earns her living as a music journalist writing for The Independent. Her reappearance in the rural village where she grew up has local tongues wagging. Since she’s been in London, she’s had a nose job, drives a Mini, and is altogether a more glamorous creature than when she left. The village hasn’t changed much – obnoxious local author Nicholas (Roger Allam) is still cheating on his long-suffering wife Beth (the brilliant Tamsin Greig), and local boy Andy (Luke Evans) still holds a candle for the Tamara he used to know and love. When Tamara begins a relationship with famous pop star Ben (Dominic Cooper), the village is turned upside down in a flutter.

Stephen Frears pulls it all together with gusto, while the film never loses its cartoon quality and some of the humour is decidedly broad, the melodrama which holds the story together keeps it from becoming too twee. As one reviewer aptly noted, imagine Martin Scorsese in Ambridge adapting The Archers and you'll come close to the spirit of Tamara Drewe. Highly entertaining.

Bring a Baby is chance for parents and carers to catch up on DCA's films. You can bring your buggies and prams into the cinema and we provide changing mats too. Screenings are exclusively for adults with a baby who is 15 months or under. No more than two adults per baby, please. DCA is one of Dundee's most baby friendly places - we welcome breast feeding mothers, can warm up a bottle for you, provide baby changing facilities and we'll even help you park your pram in the cinema.

Director: Stephen Frears

Duration: 1h41m

Country: UK

Year: 2010

Format: Digital

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