The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003). A drunken farm worker sells his wife and child at a market and begins a new life of wealth and respect as the Mayor of Casterbridge.

By RedBright

Thanks for the recommendation! I really liked Ciaran Hinds in Persuasion, so I’m definitely going to check this out, even though it feels like it might be way more intense and painfully dramatic than Austen. The stills look awesome though, and whoever that actress is in slide 13—her eyebrows are so very early-2000s 😂