In some ways this should be called Right Next to the Madding Woman. Bathsheba Evendene is a fascinating and somewhat headstrong woman who inherits a farm and goes about managing it herself. Before this happens she meets a sheepherder, Gabriel Oak, who knows right then and there, on the spot that she is the woman for him. She is not yet ready and she turns him down. It would have been a shorter movie had she not, but a happier story overall.
Gabriel soon losses his fortune while Miss Everdene gains hers and their paths cross again, with her in the driver's seat. She needs him, she knows she needs him, but their circumstances are such that she feels she cannot love him. It is a classic British story, told by Thomas Hardy, and it is beautifully brought to the screen here.
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