‘Trishna’ is a misguided reworking, both insipid and passionless
Trishna Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom UK, 2011 Among contemporary cinema’s more versatile and prolific directors, one of the few sources of inspiration Michael Winterbottom has repeatedly returned to is the work of Thomas Hardy. Jude, his 1996 adaptation of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, was effectively his breakthrough film; 2000’s The Claim, meanwhile, was …