The Globe and Mail
Michael Winterbottom, it's safe to say, has a thing about Thomas Hardy. Not a really big thing, mind you, but enough for the 51-year-old British director to have, since 1996, adapted three of that most dour of Victorian author's novels to the screen.
Seattle Times
Lush and lusty, it features a Bollywood subplot and an irresistible east-meets-west score...Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, based on Thomas Hardy's novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."