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Lady Chatterley

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Belgium, France · 2006
Rated R · 2h 47m
Director Pascale Ferran
Starring Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot, Hélène Alexandridis
Genre Drama, Romance

A French adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Lady Constance Chatterley, frustrated in her marriage to a wounded veteran of WWI, begins an intense sexual affair with her estate's gruff gamekeeper.

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70

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

If a film can be both lush and cold, both erotic and cautious, that film is Lady Chatterley. It's a picture to honor and appreciate, not necessarily to love.

80

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

I found the first half-hour a snooze, but once I adjusted to the movie's rhythms, I was completely enraptured. Ferran weaves the love affair into nature, but not in the mystical, sanctified manner of Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain."

75

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

It captures the animal attraction we call lust and carefully tracks its evolution to true love. For all its faults, this beautifully shot, sexually graphic film is a gem.

75

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Wragby is a stately manor straight out of English House & Garden, rather than a sprawling, suffocating warren teetering on the edge of a coal pit, and sex is portrayed as a means of personal deliverance rather than a universal salvation, leaving Lawrence's admirers still waiting for the film that will finally do the novel justice.

50

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

This might be pleasant to watch, in a floaty '70s-movie kind of way, if not for the film's groaning 168-minute length and abrupt thudder of an ending.

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