Lady Chatterley's Lover
by Just Jaeckin
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Actor: Ann Mitchell, Elizabeth Spriggs, Nicholas Clay, Shane Briant, Sylvia KristelDirector: Just Jaeckin
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Lady Chatterley's Lover
DVD Review: Loving Lady Chatterley's Lover
Summary: 5 Stars
Lady Chatterley's Lover ranks up there as one of the most erotic films about true romantic love ever made. Nicholas Clay as Mellors and the stunning Sylvia Kristel as Connie are perfectly matched in this highly charged love story of a woman, whose aristocratic, whiny, insufferable and sadistic husband becomes paralyzed after serving in WWI (even after that it's still impossible to find sympathy for this stuffy clod) who finds lust and love with the estate's gamekeeper, played brilliantly by the late Nicholas Clay (tragically, he died of cancer in 2000 at the young age of 53). Clay was arguably one of the most exquisite men to ever grace the silver screen and reveals all to us in this movie (and I am so grateful he does because everything he has is shockingly gorgeous - I rented this movie and after seeing the first scene with him in it I think I cleared the couch in one leap to get to my PC to buy this movie from Amazon). Well-acted with an intense intimacy that most of us will never experience because we are too frightened of it, we are able to feel it all here and drink it in with reckless abandon and without being afraid. Wonderful, lush 1920s period costuming and bucolic English countryside with a Vaughn Williams-esque music score draw you into the story of these lovers, and left me wanting more. From their first spontaneous, lustful encounter (I think my legs actually went numb when I first watched it) to their eventual "courtship," I was engrossed. This story gives me hope that real love between two people, no matter their background or socioeconomic status, does truly exist.
Connie changes because of her interaction with Mellors, and so finds true intimacy with an at first unlikely partner, and the superficial things that once seemed important to her melt away and no longer matter. She discovers who she is through her relationship with him, whereas Mellors already knows who he is. She can truly be herself around Mellors, so it is not surprising that he is a much better match for her than her rich, prissy husband. Mellors is the representation of what I consider to be an example of true masculinity: Clay's remarkable portrayal shows the unbearable pain of falling in love with someone who can only partially commit; he is physically strong and powerful, but shows remorse and disgust after being forced by Connie's husband to beat up poachers he caught on the grounds. He goes from cradling a baby chick in his hands to comforting her to decorating her hair with flowers, to making wild passionate love to her inside the secluded work shed, or in the woods against a tree out of sight from the main house. The searing contrast of Clay and Kristel's fully clothed and writhing bodies on the dirty floor of the work shed as they are overcome with lust and passion for each other will be forever burned in my mind. It is a certainty that Clay was underrated as an actor, and it would have been nice to see him in more leading roles over the years, but I am grateful that he will be forever immortalized in the great film work he did accomplish, such as in this film, Evil Under The Sun, Lovespell, and Excalibur. I highly recommend them all.
DVD Review: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
Summary: 4 Stars
I PRESUME THIS IS THE FIRST PICTURE OF SYLVIA KRISTEL WHERE WE CAN SEE HER CHANCE OF ACTING, AS AN ACTRESS, NOT ONLY A WOMAN WITH BEAUTIFULL BODY. THE OTHERS ACTORS ARE ALSO VERY CONVINCING IN THEIR ROLES, AND THE LUXURIOUS AMBIANCE OF THE LATE HYPOCRITE BELLE-EPOQUE IS EASILY PERCEIVED. I THINK THAT THE REAL MOTIVE OF GREAT SCANDAL CAUSED BY THE BOOK OF LAWRENCE- FROM WHAT THE MOVIE IS BASED-IN HIS DAYS, , WAS THE FACT THAT A LADY, ARISTOCRAT, TAKE A PEASANT AS HER LOVER, AND NOT BY HAVING A LOVER, VERY COMMON IN ANY SOCIETY.DVD Review: Magnificent portrayal with suberb acting and a full range of emotions.
Summary: 5 Stars
Slyvia Kristel, wife of the disabled Lord who after a war injury is not able to have sex is devoted but restless. Lord suggests she take a lover.
Very needing love, she sees a farm hand washing himself fully naked and
has an organism being so struck. Later on they formally meet and start having regular encounters. Lord, seeing his wife less interested engages a medical therapist who becomes his dear friend and adoring companion.
Catching her after their first night together, he sends Kristel abroad
and fires her lover. Greatly lonely and in despair, she returns only to learn of the dismissal. Pregnant, she defies the lord, gives up her
position and finds her lover far off working at a dirty factory. They unite. Lord embraces his companion and closes the door on Krystal.
The nudity and love making enhance the movie and make it much more
realistic. The scenery is breath-taking and the sound track appropriate.
I am going to see the new Hands version and try to compare the two. Krystel's beauty is heavenly and spunk admirable. Excellent acting.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED..
DVD Review: Lady Chatterly's Lover
Summary: 4 Stars
This version of Lady Chatterly's Lover is one of the better versions of D.H. Lawrence's novel. It was a little long (over 2 hours) for my short attention span, but it is engaging and the protagonists are likeable. While it is a good adaptation, the relationships between the characters are different from the relationships in the novel. It's worth watching if you enjoy a good love story that's a bit dramatic. DVD Review: Nicely done.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a D.H. Lawrence fan, but I purposely didn't re-read the book just before seeing this, because I wanted to judge the film on its own merits. I was a bit unsure about the role being handed to Sylvia Kristel, but she showed she's more than just Emmanuelle eye candy; she can actually act, and the movie comes across very well as literature-with-small-L as well as erotica. Highly recommended.
Description of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury, Sir Clifford Chatterley (Shane Briant) urges his wife, Constance (Sylvia Kristel), to take a lover to satisfy her physical needs. But when she begins an intense affair with a man of shockingly lower class ? the virile and rugged gamekeeper Mellors (Nicholas Clay) ? the unexpected stirring of passions will rock not only their marriage, but all of society as well.Back in the day when full-frontal nudity and soft-core eroticism were still part of the mainstream release strategy, Lady Chatterley's Lover made the rounds as a higher-toned slab of hubba-hubba. For this opus, Sylvia Kristel, the Dutch-born beauty who had bared all and gained a following in Emmanuelle, teamed up again with that film's director, Just Jaeckin,. Based on the once-scandalous D.H. Lawrence novel (and at least partly adapted by Marc Behm), Lady Chatterley casts Kristel as the wife of a paralyzed nobleman (former Hammer star Shane Briant). He can no longer make love to his sexy missus, and so gives his blessing to the idea of her having an affair--although the reality of the Lady getting it on with the manor's rough-hewn gamekeeper (Nicholas Clay) is not what he had in mind. The result is much closer to a bodice-ripping romance novel than to Lawrence (stick with Ken Russell's Women in Love for Lawrence erotica), and the sex scenes have the customary tropes of crackling fire and dancing in the rain. The sheer dullness of the production might be the price one must pay for getting to the hot parts, of which there are plenty. --Robert Horton
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