Vexed revision Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantánamo (2006)) was certainly ambitious in choosing to adapt Thomas Hardy‘s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, update it and set it in modern-day India – Roman Polanski‘s Tess (1979) was the most recent cinematic adaptation of Hardy’s tale, but comparisons between that and Winterbottom’s film are largely ...