Add to this strong direction and casting (Christopher Ecclestone is excellent in the title role, and a young Kate Winslett fetchingly appealing as Sue), and the result is a good film but it lacks something of a dramatic punch. Finally, he is working with a script that is neither archaic and stiff nor laced with modern anachronisms. Secondly, he sets out to explore that normality, instead of simply judging the past by present values. ![]() Firstly, he creates a picture of a livable past, not some shallow collage of country houses and Dickensian squalor but a world in which a normality, of sorts, might reign. ![]() There are three common errors made by directors of historical films that Michael Winterbottom neatly avoids in 'Jude', his adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel.
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