From the moment it was published in 1928, D.H. Lawrence’s steamy romance of a commoner and artistocratic wife has met with outrage and enduring popularity. It was so scandalous an unexpurgate…
From the moment it was published in 1928, D.H. Lawrence’s steamy romance of a commoner and artistocratic wife has met with outrageenduring popularity. It was so scandalous an unexpurgated version never appeared until an obscenity trial in Britain in 1960 was won by the publisher of the uncut version, leading to 3 million more in sales, not to mention the several film and tv versions that have been tried throughout the years including a 1955 film that itself was subject to cries for censorship.
as Connie who marries happily into England’s upper crust only to have a raging affair with her husband’s new gameskeeper, Oliver Mellors played by Jack O’Connell. This thing , without the right and convincing chemistry between the two lovers, both married to others, could fall flat as a souffle. Fortunately these are two exceptionally talented actors who pull it all off – in more ways than one.
Once convinced she could live this marriage “of the mind” , Connie’s physical needs come to the forefront upon meeting gameskeeper Oliver, whose own wife played around on him when he was off to the war but still hasn’t divorced her. In no time, with her hand touching his flesh a torrid series of clandestine meetings occur between the pair as her sexuality heightens to boiling hot, and the secret union changes her in many ways, even when the town begins to gossip.
Once the heat is turned on, deClermont-Tonnerre proves adept at filming passionate, unclothed scenes that must have kept the intimacy coordinator working overtime. Corrin is simply terrific as the unleashed Lady Chatterley, and she and the equally fine O’Connell throw everything against the wall – including themselves – in this increasingly intense and dangerous fling that seems to prove love has to be physical, not just in the mind.
Netflix releases the film, which was actually made by Sony Pictures and then sold to the streamer, in theatres in November and on Netflix in December where fans of the likes of
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