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    FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

    Oct 12, 2018 3 minutes

    by ed cripps

    The actress Julie Christie is a writing desk in an orchard, a moon lit with jonquils, a bonfire of beauty, intellect and otherness so potent it unstrung the bones of the sixties. film critic Anthony Lane praised her appeal as “maximum radiance meets minimum vanity”. Of her rootless Englishness, she once said: “I’m not sure I really come from anywhere.” Born in India to a tea planter father, young Julie was sent back (1963), opposite Tom Courtenay.

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