Jude

Rural England, the 19th century. Jude Fawley, a self-taught, intelligent young man, dreams of going to university. But he’s distracted from his ambition when he falls for Arabella Dorn, the daughter of a local pig farmer. Believing she’s pregnant, he marries her. The marriage soon turns sour and Arabella leaves him. Jude works as a stonemason by day and studies by night in the hope of being accepted by the university. He meets his cousin, Sue Bridehead, a high-spirited, intelligent young woman. He becomes obsessed with but at the same time realises that any relationship with her will be taboo…
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Direction: Michael Winterbottom
Script: Hossein Amini (based on the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy)
Cinematography: Eduardo Serra
Editing: Trevor Waite
Music: Adrian Johnston
Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths, June Whitfield, Ross Colvin Turnbull, James Daley, Berwick Kaler, Sean McKenzie, Richard Albrecht, Caitlin Bossley, Emma Turner, James Nesbit, Dexter Fletcher
Production: Revolution Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, BBC Films 1996
Producers: Andrew Eaton
Costumes: Janty Yates
Format: 35mm
Color: Color
Production Country: UΚ
Production Year: 1996
Duration: 122'

Michael Winterbottom

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom has displayed a wide array of diverse film projects that ranged from neo-noir thrillers and political docudramas to gritty family melodramas and satirical comedies. After getting his start with Thames Television, Winterbottom made his feature debut with the lesbian-centric noir Butterfly Kiss (1995) before his ambitious take on Thomas Hardy’s novel, Jude (1996). He earned considerable international acclaim for his searing war drama, Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), which unflinchingly depicted the horror of the brutal war in Yugoslavia. After the interesting, but little-seen revisionist Western, The Claim (2000), Winterbottom offered a restless kaleidoscope of images accompanied by a stellar soundtrack for 24 Hour Party People (2002), which once again helped boost his international acclaim. By the time he directed Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Winterbottom was considered to be one of the more artistically daring directors working in contemporary cinema.

Filmography

1995 Butterfly Kiss
1996 Jude
1998 I Want You
1999 Wonderland
2000 The Claim
2002 24 Hour Party People
2004 9 Songs
2006 The Road to Guantanamo
2008 A Summer in Genoa
2010 The Killer Inside Me
2012 Everyday
2014 The Trip to Italy
2015 The Emperor's New Clothes
2018 The Wedding Guest
2020 The Trip to Greece
2023 Shoshana