"Trishna"

(Vatican Radio) Vatican Radio’s film critic, Peter Malone, brings us his thoughts on Trishna, Michael Winterbottom’s latest release in which he returns to Thomas Hardy for his source material.

As Peter Malone explains to Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni, Trishna is a new adaptation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, he has placed it in a contemporary setting and removed it to the exotic location of India.

As Peter points out, the film is beautifully shot in lush, vibrant colours. Its location is far from the English countryside of the novel, but the spirit of the work remains: Hardy’s preoccupations with class, power and gender struggles resonate throughout the film…

Listen to the review…