Lady Chatterley

Winner of five Cesar Awards (the French 'Oscar'), including Best Picture and Best Director, LADY CHATTERLEY is a keenly perceptive, frankly sensual adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel about the turbulent love affair between a lonely British aristocrat's wife and their estate's gamekeeper. Director Pascale Ferran captures the author's vision both of a society in transition, and the tremulous eroticism between two people drawn together despite its inequalities.

“Every frame of the film seems alive with a sensuality that is both wild and intelligent.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times)

“Thrilling...a sizzler in every sense of the word.” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

“Ranks as one of the sexiest, smartest page-to-screen transfers ever made.” (Time Out New York)

“You think you know the story of the genteel lady who finds sexual bliss with a rough gamekeeper. But you do not — not like in Lady Chatterley, Pascale Ferran's startling, womanly adaptation of a lesser-known, more direct version of D.H. Lawrence's famous novel, one of three he wrote. 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. And there's emotional as well as physical nakedness in the performances of Marina Hands and Jean-Louis Coulloc'h as lovers who talk through touch. A–” (Liza Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly)