Now this is a comic adaptation you may not expect. Based on the Posy Simmonds‘ weekly serial in The Guardian, The Queen director Stephen Frears latest film stars Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, and Luke Evans. It received mixed reviews at Cannes Film Festival this year, but I like the lighthearted, modest nature of the trailer below. After seeing the stunning Gemma Arterton in Prince of Persia, I have yet to check out her note-worthy performance in The Disappearance of Alice Creed, but it is first on my list. Check out the trailer below via Yahoo and let us know what you think.
Synopsis: When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara — once an ugly duckling — has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book: sex appeal.
Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Tamara Drewe on October 8th.
What do you think of the trailer?