Lady Chatterley's Lover is no shag fest – but it is a little bland ✍️ This latest adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel is beautiful but fundamentally un-risky 🟠 francescasteele
The latest adaptation ofis no shag fest, intent on recalling the book’s obscenity trial. In fact, if anything it could have done with pushing the envelope a little further. This is a beautiful but fundamentally un-risky version of D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel about class, industrialisation and passion.
Emma Corrin is magnetic as the eponymous Lady Chatterley, aka Connie Reid, an educated bohemian Londoner who marries aristocratic Sir Clifford Chatterley just before he goes to fight in the First World War. When he comes back, paralysed from the waist down and decidedly more committed to his books and unfeeling management of the local mines, Connie seeks physical and spiritual comfort in the arms of the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors .
Theirs is a physical connection that is, in this adaptation at least, mutually satisfying but also, over four tenderly rendered sex scenes, increasingly emotional too.Despite the gulf between their social standing, the pair enjoy reading James Joyce together, stripping naked outside and revelling in the pleasures of the natural world, frolicking like children in the local lakes, dancing among the long grass.
Meanwhile, Duckett plays Sir Clifford not as an outright villain, but a man no longer suited to his wife.
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