Lady Chatterley (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [2007]

Customer Reviews:

Not what Lawrence intended.........................2008-03-11

This is a brave effort to bring 'John Thomas & Lady Jane' to the screen, but it is significantly flawed in realisation. My problems with the film are listed below:

1. It fails to fully bring out Lawrence's despair over the way he believed that industrialization had destroyed the hopes and dreams of the working man.

2. The gamekeeper is not the lean, pale man described in the book and he is also too passive. Connie does not really show the character development required as she becomes sexually liberated and released from her 'dead' relationship with Clifford.

3. Clifford is not irascible enough as even in this version of the novel he is an intense and frustrated man who is devastated by his injuries and rails against the world around him. The Director has failed to draw this out from the performance here and we get little of Clifford's contempt for those of a lower class.

4. The French dialogue in the film obviously cannot capture the way Lawrence uses local accents to emphasis differences in class in his stories.

Overall, I admire the French production team in tackling this, but honestly, this particular Lawrence story is too English in its content to 'travel' well hence my mark of 3 stars for this. It is well photographed and filmed and the sexual content is carefully and tenderly played by the two main actors, but the characters are all too low key.

Sane, sexy and good-humoured.......2008-03-08

This is a terrific movie based on one of D H Lawrence's versions of his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The French have made a sane, sexy and good-humoured film of the book which expresses all of the ambiguities in the relationships between men and women which obsessed Lawrence in much of his writing, and preserved some of the absurdities as well. But whereas other movies and television have turned the story into, frankly, a shagfest, here in this French film there is extraordinary freshness, passion, conviction and joy.

I haven't seen the disc of extras, so I can't comment on that. The movie however is wonderful.

a triumph.......2008-02-12

Don't listen to this imbecile!

For those of you with receptive souls - buy this film immediately and savour the sheer quality, the heartfelt performances, the stunning changes of seasons and the delicate beauty of actress Marina Hinds.

The length didn't bother me in the slightest, in fact I wish it was longer, and as for the comment about the actor/actress not being beautiful enough, that is the masterstroke. The director has deliberately made them real people, not pretty, not glossy, just normal people, and it's all the more shattering for it.

purchase and savour.

Soooo drawn out.......2008-02-03

When Lady Connie goes for a bit of rough, she really goes for something with a capital R. As this was an overlong film my mind did wander to the gamekeeper, "Parkin's" (not Mellors in this version) paunch and receding hair.

Sorry, I'm shallow when bored. If you're going to watch two people constantly prancing around in the buff they should be reasonably beautiful people (the Bean-Richardson version was a little more erotic!). The cuckolded Chatterley was reasonably irritable. There were groups of begrimed miners that stared to perfection in a manly working class way. All very Freudian with hob nailed boots on in the Lawrence manner, but not great entertainment.

Customer Reviews:

Too Fast !!.......2005-02-01

Being a Welsh girl I have not come across hula dance before. Kili provides a great dvd, but not for the inexperienced. Straight away she moved way too fast and was 5 steps ahead of me. You don't get time to figure out what she's doing with her body because she doesn't explain it. She does the moves, briefly says what she's doing and moves onto the next one. All the while I'm trying to figure out where my arms and legs are supposed to be.
The dance she is teaching you is a fast dance in itself, great for weightloss, but not for a beginner. If you are new at this I strongly advise trying out the beginners dvd (haven't tried it myself yet). Unless you have a slow button :)

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