Lady Chatterley's Lover [Blu-ray]

Director: Just Jaeckin Just Jaeckin

Overview

This adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterly's Lover stars Sylvia Kristel as Constance Chatterly, the young wife of an emotionally distant aristocrat in 1910's England, who becomes only less accessible to his spouse when he loses the use of his legs in World War I. He gives her leave to take up a lover, but when Constance turns to the bed of the low-born groundskeeper, Mellors (Nicholas Clay), she not only discovers what passionate lovemaking is really like, but also experiences actual intimacy and love for the first time, leading to a dramatic love triangle, and a bevy of subtext about classism and emotional freedome.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/17/2015
UPC:	0887090089807
Original Release:	1981
Rating:	R
Source:	Olive
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	16,391

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.

All Movie Guide - Cammila Collar