Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) film performed well at the box office in the UK but was a commercial failure in the US. "Far from the Madding Crowd" received mixed to positive reviews from critics, as the film holds a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British epic drama film adapted from Thomas Hardy's book of the same name. The film, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch, and directed by John Schlesinger, was Schlesinger's fourth film (and his third collaboration with Christie). It
Matthias Schoenaerts 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He also played Eric Deeds in "The Drop", his second film with Michael R. Roskam, starring opposite Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini. In 2015, the actor appeared in 7 films: "The Loft", the American remake of the Belgian film "Loft", in which he played the same character and was also his first English-language film; in Saul Dibb's "Suite Française", playing the German soldier Bruno von Falk opposite Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas; in Thomas Vinterberg's "Far from the Madding Crowd" as Gabriel Oak, one of Carey Mulligan's three love interests; in Alan Rickman's