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Gemma Arterton in a scene from "Tamara Drewe"  Movie review
Tamara Drewe: Updated adultery in Dorset Add to ...    • Country
USA   • Language English  Tamara Drewe is a film with an
interesting literary pedigree. It is based on the graphic novel
of the same title by the British cartoonist Posy Simmonds,
originally serialized in The Guardian in 2005. Simmonds's
inspiration for a contemporary work about adultery in Dorset was
Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd, a tale of
romantic entanglements set in the same bucolic part of
southwestern England.  More Related to this Story  Stephen
Frears, remembered most recently for directing Helen Mirren in
The Queen, and screenwriter Moira Buffini have taken Simmonds's
episodic and observational novel and given it a tighter focus
and more romantic plot while preserving enough of its dark wit
and black comedy to make this often del