Mellors is aloof and derisive, and yet Connie feels curiously drawn to him by his innate nobility and grace, his purposeful isolation, his undercurrents of natural sensuality. Into the void of Connie's life comes Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on Clifford's estate, newly returned from serving in the army.
Bolton, is hired to take care of the handicapped Clifford so that Connie can be more independent, and Clifford falls into a deep dependence on the nurse, his manhood fading into an infantile reliance. This simple sighting turns her into a raving sexual maniac who ceaselessly tries to sate her newly found sexual appetite.Ĭast: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot, Helene Alexandridis, Helene FillieresĮxtended European Edition featuring nearly an hour of additional material excluded from the film s theatrical cut that explores the emotional and sensual borderlands uniting sex, love, and loyalty with even more intelligence, passion, and power than before.There is a growing distance between Connie and Clifford, who has retreated into the meaningless pursuit of success in his writing and in his obsession with coal-mining, and towards whom Connie feels a deep physical aversion. Her sexuality awakens when she sees Parkin the Gamekeeper's (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) bare back. His condition also leaves his wife quite sexually frustrated, although it takes her a quite some time to realize this. Clifford was injured in WWI and is confined to a wheelchair. Lady Chatterley (Marina Hands) is the young and beautiful woman married to the much older Clifford (Hippolyte Girardot). Lawrence’s controversial views on sex, class and power.
Basing her film on an early and lesser-known version of the Lady Chatterley story called John Thomas and Lady Jane, Pascale Ferran makes an admirable attempt to transpose novel to film and reflect D.H.
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