French director Pascale Ferran brings DH Lawrence's second & lesser-known version of LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER to the screen Approaching three hours in length the film explores its protagonist's emotional transformation Set in England in the 1920s the film begins with our heroine played by Marina Hands saying goodbye to her husband Clifford who is heading off to war Left behind on their grand country estate Constance gets the first taste of the loneliness & isolation she will later become accustomed to when he returns home paralysed Suddenly reduced to the role of nurse the young woman cares for her invalid husband & listlessly putters about the large property desperately dreaming of escape She finds this outlet in Parkin (Jean-Louis Coulloc'h) the deceptively brutish gamekeeper down the hill Sceptical of Constance at first Parkin begrudgingly produces an extra set of keys to his shed when asked opening the door to an affair that will awaken something deeply repressed in both parties Clifford inadvertently encourages his wife by dismissing her boredom & unhappiness as unimportant When the unspoken tension between Parkin & Constance eventually explodes into a fiery sexual encounter the two embark on a journey of sexual awakening & personal discovery LADY CHATTERLEY is beautifully filmed providing an extremely detailed account of the heroine's visual surroundings Scenery functions symbolically to show how Constance blooms in the aura of Parkin's love But as passionate & subversive as their affair is the reality of their social positions is always present with visual clues creating a sense of constant threat to the relationship When Constance goes off on a carefree extravagant holiday with her fashionable sister & others from her own class homemade-style footage of her trip contrasts with the controlled way in which her home life is captured & demonstrates just how far she is from that world The film's ending is rather open-ended suggesting several possible outcomes by calling into question how much the early-20th-century social structure will matter in the end ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928 creating a storm of controversy Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir Clifford an aristocratic & an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War Desperate for an heir & embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife Clifford suggests that she have an affair Constance troubled by her husband's words finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper Oliver Mellors Lawrence's vitriolic denunciations of industrialism & class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional & physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station & society ...

' Connie was aware however of a growing restlessness It thrilled inside her body in her womb somewhere till she felt she must jump into water & swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness It made her heart beat violently for no reason' Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent Oppressed by her dreary life she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper Breaking out against the constraints of society she yields to her instinctive desire for him & discovers the transforming power of physical love which leads them both towards fulfilment Banned for many years for its frank depiction of sex Lady Chatterley's Lover was first published by Penguin in 1960 & was at the centre of a sensational obscenity trial at the Old Bailey D H Lawrence himself called it 'the most improper novel in the world' ...

Connie's unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by mutual frustration & alienation Crippled from wartime action Clifford is confined to a wheelchair while Connie's solitary sterile existence is contained within the narrow parameters of the Chatterley ancestral home Wragby She seizes her chance at happiness & freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with the estate's gamekeeper Mellors discovering a world of sexual opportunity & pleasure she'd thought lost to her The explosive passion of Connie & Mellors' relationship
- & the searing candour with which it is described
- marked a watershed in twentieth-century fiction garnering Lady Chatterley's Lover a wide & enduring readership & lasting notoriety The text is taken from the privately published Author's Unabridged Popular Edition of 1930 the last to be supervised in D H Lawrence's lifetime It also

Includes:: his witty essay My Skirmish with Jolly Roger describing the pirating of this infamous novel This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover features an afterword by editor & publisher Anna South Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure



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Notes & Introduction by David Ellis University of Kent at Canterbury With its four-letter words & its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which DH Lawrence is most often associated First published privately in Florence in 1928 it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition The famous ' Lady Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades & signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist & the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde & from feminists The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down & of the tender love which then develops between her & her husband's gamekeeper is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society & to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love & sex ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Holliday Grainger Richard Madden & James Norton star in this BBC adaptation of DH Lawrence&s novel written & directed by Jed Mercurio After her upper-class husband Sir Clifford (Norton) returns home from the First World War confined to a wheelchair & paralysed from the waist down Lady Constance Chatterley (Grainger) embarks upon an affair with the estate&s gamekeeper Oliver Mellors (Madden) But in the strict society of 1920s England Lady Chatterley is forced to decide whether to continue her scandalous affair or reconcile with her increasingly suspicious husband ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A film adaptation of DH Lawrence&s novel After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband & her physical desires With her husband&s consent she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs ...

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