Adapted from Posy Simmonds's Guardian comic strip we thoroughly enjoyed this BBC film probably more so because we knew nothing about the comic strip or even the film itself. After all it was a Saturday night and nothing to do after such a fun packed weekend previously.
And it was that fun packed weekend that for us was the key. Set in Dorset, which becomes more attractive everytime we set eyes on it, that link was quickly established, and the writers, living in Oxford, became oh so real. Then the double whammy, Tamara Drewe, being a journalist, goes off to do some work, open shot of music festival with in the foreground the Tipi Tent and the Big Top beyond, surely not the EOTR festival? Oh yes it is, for next shot is the Garden Stage looking out at the audience with the trees and follies forming the backdrop of the outside auditorium. Full crowd and we were there only six days previous. Could not believe our eyes.
The storyline gets a bit thin from the middle onwards as it tries to resolve itself in this compressed format but excellent performance by Tamsin Grieg as the wife and Roger Hallam as the philandering author, and Gemma Arterton is not bad as Tamara Drewe.
Again I have to agree with Rotten Tomatoes rating
7.8 / 10
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