1997 Directed by Graham Theakston
Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again. When she visits her cousin Lucy Deane, Lucy's fiance, Stephen Guest, falls in love with Maggie at first sight, further complicating matters.
Mlýn na červené řece, MŁYN NAD FLOSSĄ, 弗洛斯河上的磨房
UK
UK
Ultimately a toothless adaptation of the classic novel, hindered by some rushed pacing and very uneven performances.
The BBC normally do this sort of thing well, but here they’ve tried to cram too much into too short a run time, with the result that the final third, which is where it all kicks off, rushes through the conclusion too fast, involving several characters in which we’re just not that invested.
Add to that, some of the performances are strikingly poor, wooden even. Not Watson or Hill of course, but their high quality merely exposes some of the others quite painfully. In the end, it doesn’t really do the novel justice, which is a shame.
