Tamara Drewe (2010)
Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex. Tamara Drewe’s present-day English countryside—stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows—is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara—once an ugly duckling—has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book—sex appeal.
Articles on Tamara Drewe
| Tamara Drewe, in: Empire, nr. 253 (July), 2010 pp. 45 |
Reviews
| Angie Errigo, Tamara drewe, in: Empire, nr. 256 (October), 2010 pp. 56 |
| Lisa Mullen, Tamara Drewe, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 10 (October), 2010 pp. 74-75 |
| Amy Taubin, Tamara Drewe, in: Filmcomment, nr. 5 (September/October), 2010 pp. 68-69 |
| Michael Kohler, Immer Drama um Tamara, in: Filmdienst, nr. 26 (23. Dezember), 2010 pp. 38 |
| Gerhard Midding, Immer Drama um Tamara, in: epd Film, nr. 1, 2011 pp. 48 |
| Jörg Taszman, Schwarze Provinzsatire, in: epd Film, nr. 7, 2011 pp. 57 (DVD review) |