Carey Mulligan's face could easily be a liability. From her delicately dimpled cheeks, sad almond eyes and doughy expressiveness, her innocent beauty is one that might have condemned her to silly high school roles ? even at 29. Whether she's jumping into Daisy Buchanan's gowns or performing a haunting rendition of "New York, New York," she always manages to use that rare combination of youth and worldliness to make roles her own. The story is no different in Thomas Vinterberg's adaptation of the 1874 Thomas Hardy novel "Far From the Madding Crowd," where Mulligan plays Bathsheba Everdene. Julie Christie may have given her own spirit to the vivacious farm girl turned landowner in 1967, but after watching Mulligan transform once again, it seems there isn't a modern actress on the market who is so uniquely up to the task of bringing Bathsheba back to life.??