FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
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 to England (1963), opposite Tom Courtenay.
