This is an attractive, involving film with an excellent performance from Hands as the sensible woman standing between two men incapable of transcending conventional notions of power and male domination.
Lady Chatterley (2007)
Runtime: 2 hrs 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Marina Hands, Jean-Louise Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girodot, Helene Alexandridis, Michel Vincent
Screenwriter: Pascale Ferran, Roger Bohbot
Producer: Kristina Larsen, Gilles Sandoz
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 12, 2007
DVD Features:
- Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:
- (unspecified) - French
- Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Materials:
- Trailers
Reviews
Based on DH Lawrence's second version of this story (he wrote three), this film takes a much more intimate, sensual and natural approach to the familiar story.
A sensitive and entirely believable love story, as far from most of the other filmed versions as it is possible to be.
Not the soft-core romp one might expect but a drama of thoughtful, touching poignancy.
Set aside any lingering preconceptions you might have about Lawrence, and prepare to be entranced.
This isn't so much Beauty and the Beast as Beauty and the Dull Bloke.
A pity that the director did not devote more of the two hours and 48 minutes to satisfying cinemagoers minds, rather than constantly showing Parkin satisfying Lady Chatterley.
There comes a point in the highly lauded and award-winning French language Lady Chatterley that you want to scream: “Just shag him already! It’s only sex!”.
Probably more one for arthouse fans, Lady Chatterley lingers in the mind not because of all that nudity – and there’s a lot – but because it’s so beautifully made.
Unhurried in its pacing, Ferran's film is gentle in its nature, allowing the narrative to unfold as gradually as the feelings between Constance Chatterley and her lover. An intimate expression of love and sexuality, it's a triumphant piece of work.
Lays on the rudeness with gusto earning its 18 certificate, while teasing out the story's themes of nature, sex and class conflict with elegant intelligence.
Feran favours intellectual showboating over subtlety, slathering this poorly paced and cripplingly long film in primitive symbolism, meaningful gazes and pensive longueurs.
Pascale Ferran as the first female director to adapt this notorious novel absorbs her successful vision with a uniquely romantic vibe.
Engaging, strikingly photographed and packing a powerful emotional punch, Lady Chatterley is an award winning drama with terrific performances from its three leads.
Alas...the lady comes across here as a simple-minded girl instead of an achingly vulnerable woman of possibilities.
O que poderia ser mais belo do que testemunhar dois seres humanos redescobrindo a alegria de viver apenas através do prazer originado por seus toques mútuos?
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