Starring: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell, Elizabeth Spriggs Directed By: Just Jaeckin Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 26, 2005 Running Time: 104 minutes Theatrical Release Date: May 07, 1982
Product Description: Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle) is "beautiful" (The New York Times) as the lonely young wife of a wealthy aristocrat in this scintillating tale of love lust and forbidden fantasies. Adapted from D.H. Lawrence's famously erotic novel this "truly sumptuous production" captures the "splendor of the English countryside" (The Hollywood Reporter) and the torturous conflict between duty and desire.Paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury Sir Clifford Chatterley (Shane Briant) urges his wife Constance (Kristel) to take a lover to satisfy her physical needs. But when she begins an intense affair with a man of shockingly lower class the virile and rugged gamekeeper Mellors (Nicholas Clay) the unexpected stirring of passions will rock not only the Chatterleys' marriage but all of society as well.System Requirements: Runnng Time 104 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616925749 Manufacturer No: 1008565
Amazon.com: Back in the day when full-frontal nudity and soft-core eroticism were still part of the mainstream release strategy, Lady Chatterley's Lover made the rounds as a higher-toned slab of hubba-hubba. For this opus, Sylvia Kristel, the Dutch-born beauty who had bared all and gained a following in Emmanuelle, teamed up again with that film's director, Just Jaeckin,. Based on the once-scandalous D.H. Lawrence novel (and at least partly adapted by Marc Behm), Lady Chatterley casts Kristel as the wife of a paralyzed nobleman (former Hammer star Shane Briant). He can no longer make love to his sexy missus, and so gives his blessing to the idea of her having an affair--although the reality of the Lady getting it on with the manor's rough-hewn gamekeeper (Nicholas Clay) is not what he had in mind. The result is much closer to a bodice-ripping romance novel than to Lawrence (stick with Ken Russell's Women in Love for Lawrence erotica), and the sex scenes have the customary tropes of crackling fire and dancing in the rain. The sheer dullness of the production might be the price one must pay for getting to the hot parts, of which there are plenty. --Robert Horton
Magnificent portrayal with suberb acting and a full range of emotions. Slyvia Kristel, wife of the disabled Lord who after a war injury is not able to have sex is devoted but restless. Lord suggests she take a lover. Very needing love, she sees a farm hand washing himself fully naked and has an organism being so struck. Later on they formally meet and start having regular encounters. Lord, seeing his wife less interested engages a medical therapist who becomes his dear friend and adoring companion. Catching her after their first night together, he sends Kristel abroad and fires her lover. Greatly lonely and in despair, she returns only to learn of the dismissal. Pregnant, she defies the lord, gives up her position and finds her lover far off working at a dirty factory. They unite. Lord embraces his companion and closes the door on Krystal.
The nudity and love making enhance the movie and make it much more realistic. The scenery is breath-taking and the sound track appropriate. I am going to see the new Hands version and try to compare the two. Krystel's beauty is heavenly and spunk admirable. Excellent acting. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED..
Lady Chatterly's Lover This version of Lady Chatterly's Lover is one of the better versions of D.H. Lawrence's novel. It was a little long (over 2 hours) for my short attention span, but it is engaging and the protagonists are likeable. While it is a good adaptation, the relationships between the characters are different from the relationships in the novel. It's worth watching if you enjoy a good love story that's a bit dramatic.
Nicely done. I am a D.H. Lawrence fan, but I purposely didn't re-read the book just before seeing this, because I wanted to judge the film on its own merits. I was a bit unsure about the role being handed to Sylvia Kristel, but she showed she's more than just Emmanuelle eye candy; she can actually act, and the movie comes across very well as literature-with-small-L as well as erotica. Highly recommended.
Lady Chatterley's Lover I saw this movie in 1982, it is great to see it again after all these years.
Lady Chatterley's Lover 1982 version what a dog of a movie,if someone is looking for a better movie version of this story buy the new (1992) or later americanized version
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