Winterbottom has let the art designer do all his work.Īrabella is the daughter of a pig farmer she attracts Jude's attention by pitching a piece of offal at him. All this takes place in a series of grim stone and brick English villages that let you know that the story is meant to be bleak, bleak, bleak. Jude finally persuades Sue to run away with him.
He goes to Christminster and falls in love with his cousin Sue, who nonetheless marries Phillotson. Jude marries Arabella (Rachel Griffiths), a lusty peasant woman, but things don't work out.
Phillotson (Liam Cunningham), sets off for Christminster and an academic career. The young Jude (James Daly) is beaten by a farmer for feeding the crows he's supposed to be driving from a field. Director Michael Winterbottom languidly unspools the story nothing seems to lead to anything, episodes just unfold and then give way to other episodes. Watching the wan Christopher Eccleston as Jude and Kate Winslet as his cousin and lover Sue Bridehead, an audience might well wonder what all the fuss was about. You'd never guess from "Jude," the flaccid movie adaptation of "Jude the Obscure," that the unfortunate lovers were as passionate, stormy and doomed as Heathcliff and Cathy in "Wuthering Heights." Thomas Hardy's novel - a sexually frank, anti-marriage diatribe - raised such vitriolic criticism in the 19th century that he turned the rest of his career to the safer art of poetry.
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