Synopsis
In the Chatterley’s country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. A tale of an encounter, a difficult apprenticeship, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a long return to life for him. Or how love is but one with experience and transformation.
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Cast
- Marina HandsConstance
- Jean-Louis Coulloc'hParkin
- Hippolyte GirardotClifford
- Hélène AlexandridisMrs. Bolton
- Hélène FillièresHilda
- Bernard VerleyConstance Vater
- Sava LolovTommy Dukes
- Jean-Baptiste MontagutHarry Winterslo
- William AtkinsonMineur
- Michel VincentMarshall
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
There's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, even in the sight of rain and a lady's stocking. - 90
The New York Times
This Lady Chatterley, winner of five César awards in France, feels bracingly fresh, vital and modern. - 88
Rolling Stone
It's a movie as timely as it is thrilling to watch. - 88
New York Post
Intelligent and tasteful, even while being sexually frank. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
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." - 80
Village Voice
This is not so much a love story (and even less a story about love) than it is a movie of passionate loveliness. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 75
New York Daily News
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.
