Michael Winterbottom’s skilful adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure is a powerful and moving saga.
Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, the self-educated stonemason who falls in love with his well-to-do cousin Sue Bridehead (Kate Winslet). In addition to the scandal of the couple being related (and both married to someone else), the story also addresses their conflicting class backgrounds.
There’s real gravitas in the performances and it ends up being moving without resorting to sentimentality.
June Whitfield is excellent as Jude’s elderly mother.
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