In this recent adaptation, D.H. Lawrence's notorious erotic novel is given a rapturous treatment by French director Pascale Ferran. Constance Chatterley is a vital young woman stranded at her wounded, impotent husband's family estate. Her boredom ends, however, when she meets Parkin, the estate's gardener, and the two begin a clandestine but smoldering affair. Ferran's version is disarming and eloquent, and her French-speaking cast creates a vivid and beguiling portrait of social hierarchy and unbound sensuality. "Ms. Ferran has rediscovered both the novel's originality and the source of its durable appeal, which is not salaciousness but candor. She has made a love story that stands on its own, a film whose imaginative freedom perfectly matches the liberation experienced by its heroine." (A.O. Scott, NY Times) More at www.kino.com/ladychatterley 35mm
2007, color, 2 hours 48 minutes, France