At the beginning of the film, the point of view is from that of Clifford Chatterley (James Wilby), with lots of low camera angles showing how he sees other people. But, of course, he is hopelessly emasculated and useless to his wife, Lady Chatterley. He's also bitter, so nasty that he even tries to run over young poor boys in his Rolls Royce on his vast estate.
Contains the usual Ken Russell weirdo stuff, like with Lady Chatterley on her symbolic black horse surrounded by loads of fit young men, in this case hopelessly camped up and a bit like an O Level Film Studies/English effort. Sometimes Russell gets it right like in the excellent Whore but this time he seems a bit desperate. It's got all of the clichéd stuff, like Connie (Richardson) walking through a different kind of setting according to what mood she's in violents and loads of flowers for a good mood, frosty, autumn scenes for when she's depressed. The usual stuff.
Sean Bean is adequate, really just playing himself, as usual. I prefer him in Essex Boys.
If you want a film with loads of stuff on the British class system then this is the one for you. However, even the sex scenes are not much good and not really convincing
Contains the usual Ken Russell weirdo stuff, like with Lady Chatterley on her symbolic black horse surrounded by loads of fit young men, in this case hopelessly camped up and a bit like an O Level Film Studies/English effort. Sometimes Russell gets it right like in the excellent Whore but this time he seems a bit desperate. It's got all of the clichéd stuff, like Connie (Richardson) walking through a different kind of setting according to what mood she's in violents and loads of flowers for a good mood, frosty, autumn scenes for when she's depressed. The usual stuff.
Sean Bean is adequate, really just playing himself, as usual. I prefer him in Essex Boys.
If you want a film with loads of stuff on the British class system then this is the one for you. However, even the sex scenes are not much good and not really convincing