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  Average Rating for Tess of the D'urbervilles [BBC 2008] - 4 out of 5

  
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• Tess of the D'urbervilles [BBC 2008]

  Geoff Morgan 20 October 2008

  

  I was about seventeen years old when I first read Tess Of The D'Urbervilles. I sat up until two o'clock in the morning to finish the final chapters because I just couldn't put the book down. Now, over thirty years later, this excellent dramatisation of Hardy's masterpiece had the same effect (I had purposely recorded all four episodes so that I could watch the whole story in one hit). Previous TV serialisations have ranged from very good to downright shoddy but none of them have ever so perfectly captured the emotional desolation wrought on Tess and Angel by the social strictures of their time. A heartachingly sensitive performance by Gemma Arterton and Eddie Redmayne that was made all the more so by the brilliant supporting cast. Another top quality drama from the BBC.

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. This lavish adaptation of Thomas Hardy's literary classic start Gemma Arterton (THE QUANTUM OF SOLACE) in the titular role of Tess, the poor peasant girl who becomes a social outcast after she falls pregnant with the child of her rich cousin.

Four-part television adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel, set in his fictional county of Wessex. When Tess (Gemma Arterton) is sent to work for distant relatives following the death of her parents, she is pursued and exploited by Alec D'Urberville (Hans Matheson), eventually falling pregnant to him. Tess flees, and finally falls in love with the handsome Angel Clare (Eddie Redmayne), who seems to offer everything that Tess has wanted. But after he proposes marriage, tragedy strikes when Tess decides to confess her past to him the night before their wedding.