Lady Chatterley's Lover

Director: Just Jaeckin Just Jaeckin

Overview

A more provocative version of the 1955 film of D.H. Lawrence's novel about the wife of a crippled and impotent man who seeks fulfillment in the arms of the gamekeeper on the estate.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/17/2015
UPC:	0887090089708
Original Release:	1981
Rating:	R
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	14,559

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sylvia Kristel	Lady Constance Chatterley
Nicholas Clay	Oliver Mellors
Shane Briant	Sir Clifford Chatterley
Ann Mitchell	Ivy Bolton
Elizabeth Spriggs	Lady Eva
Peter Bennett	Butler
Pascale Rivault	Hilda
Anthony Head	Anton
Frank Moorey	The Priest
Bessie Love	Flora
John Tynan	Roberts
Michael Huston	Footman
Fran Hunter	Maid
Ryan Michael	Gigolo
Mark Colleano	Gigolo
Frank Morey	Priest
Pascale Ridault	Hilda
Stanley Myers	Composer
Richard Harvey	Composer

Technical Credits

Just Jaeckin

Marc Behm

Christopher Wicking

Andre Djaoui	Producer
Yoram Globus	Executive Producer
Menahem Golan	Executive Producer
Just Jaeckin	Director,Screenwriter
Christopher Pearce	Producer
Marc Behm	Screenwriter
Christopher Wicking	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Lady Chatterly's Lover, D. H. Lawrence's classic novel about liberation -- both sexual and social -- might have seemed tame by the post-Studio 54 era of 1981, but director Just Jaeckin adapts the tale wonderfully. The simple story of Constance Chatterly, an aristocratic wife, whose paraplegic husband gives her leave to take a lover, then balks when she falls legitimately in love with the estate's groundskeeper is told through the gauzy sheen of Constance's journey toward self actualization, as she slowly but surely shakes off the strictures of class and emotional inhibition. No stranger to the erotic and no scaredy-cat when it comes to depicting sex on screen, Jaeckin conjures on film the perfect combination of pensive, 70's storytelling, Merchant-Ivory melodrama, and Emmanuelle-style softcore sex. The result is equal parts emotional and sensual, titillating and thought provoking.