Product Information
When her husband returns from war paralysed, Lady Chatterly feelings of boredom and frustration lead her to begin a taboo affair with the estate's gamekeeper.Product Identifiers
ProducerGilles Sandoz
EAN5021866359304
eBay Product ID (ePID)60530323
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleLady Chatterley
ActorJean-Louis Coulloc'h, Kristina Larsen, Michel Vincent, Hippolyte Girardot, Helene Alexandridis, Marina Hands
DirectorPascale Ferran
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
FormatDVD
Release Year2008
LanguageFrench
FeaturesInterviews with Pascale Ferran, Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulooc'h and Hippolyte Giradot\Deleted scenes with cast and crew commentaries\Behind the scenes documentary\Trailer, Widescreen, With Subtitles
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate18
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
Director of PhotographyJulien Hirsch
ReviewsSunday Times - Prepare to be entranced... A movie of spellbinding erotic power... Breathtaking, New York Times - The film feels bracingly fresh, vital and modern....Ms. Hands, still in the early stages of her film career, has a beguiling mixture of poise and naturalness, Entertainment Weekly - There's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, Rolling Stone - A spellbinding film....It's a movie as timely as it is thrilling to watch
Consumer AdviceContains strong sex and nudity
Additional InformationFrench director Pascale Ferran brings D.H. Lawrence's second and lesser-known version of LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER to the screen. Approaching three hours in length, the film explores its protagonist's emotional transformation. Set in England in the 1920s, the film begins with our heroine, played by Marina Hands, saying goodbye to her husband, Clifford, who is heading off to war. Left behind on their grand country estate, Constance gets the first taste of the loneliness and isolation she will later become accustomed to when he returns home paralysed. Suddenly reduced to the role of nurse, the young woman cares for her invalid husband and listlessly putters about the large property, desperately dreaming of escape. She finds this outlet in Parkin (Jean-Louis Coulloc'h), the deceptively brutish gamekeeper down the hill. Sceptical of Constance at first, Parkin begrudgingly produces an extra set of keys to his shed when asked, opening the door to an affair that will awaken something deeply repressed in both parties. Clifford inadvertently encourages his wife by dismissing her boredom and unhappiness as unimportant. When the unspoken tension between Parkin and Constance eventually explodes into a fiery sexual encounter, the two embark on a journey of sexual awakening and personal discovery. LADY CHATTERLEY is beautifully filmed, providing an extremely detailed account of the heroine's visual surroundings. Scenery functions symbolically to show how Constance blooms in the aura of Parkin's love. But as passionate and subversive as their affair is, the reality of their social positions is always present, with visual clues creating a sense of constant threat to the relationship. When Constance goes off on a carefree, extravagant holiday with her fashionable sister and others from her own class, homemade-style footage of her trip contrasts with the controlled way in which her home life is captured, and demonstrates just how far she is from that world. The film's ending is rather open-ended, suggesting several possible outcomes by calling into question how much the early-20th-century social structure will matter in the end.
Movie/TV TitleLady Chatterley
ComposerBeatrice Thiriet
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
ScreenwriterPascale Ferran, Robert Bohbon
WriterD.H. Lawrence