Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe is a weekly comic strip serial by Posy Simmonds published in The Guardian's Review section. The story was adapted into a feature film starring Gemma Arterton. Tamara Drewe is a joyful but occasionally dark comedy about a young newspaper journalist torn between two lovers. Tamara’s childhood home is being sold, and her return to the rural Dorset village where she grew up causes something of a stir. Having left as an awkward teenager she returns as a smoldering femme fatale, kicking up a storm of envy, lust and gossip wherever she goes. Tamara is the ultimate modern girl but her story of love and confusion is timeless."Drewe, a sexy flirt, returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals." Gemma Arterton looks so sweet like that! Gemma Artenton has been in a lot of films, including Quantum of Solace (James Bond Girls) , Pirate Radio, and Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time.Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it. People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. Transform from clear up the house, she becomes an object of lust, of envy, the focus of unrequited love, a seductress. To the village teenagers she is ‘plastic-fantastic’, a role model.Ultimately, when her hot and indiscriminate glances lead to tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless marriage wrecker, a slut.