Lady Chatterley (2006)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Pascale Ferran

Writers:

Roger Bohbot (writer)
Pascale Ferran (writer)
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Release Date:

1 November 2006 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Based on one of the most scandalous novels of our time

Plot:

A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence's erotic tale.

Plot Keywords:

Estate | Daffodil | Lady | Affair | Class Distinction

Awards:

10 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Marina Hands	...	Constance
Jean-Louis Coullo'ch	...	Parkin (as Jean-Louis Coulloc'h)
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Clifford
Hélène Alexandridis	...	Mrs. Bolton
Hélène Fillières	...	Hilda
Bernard Verley	...	Le père de Constance
Sava Lolov	...	Tommy Dukes
Jean-Baptiste Montagut	...	Harry Winterslow
Fanny Deleuze	...	Tante Eva
Michel Vincent	...	Marshall
Colette Philippe	...	Mrs. Marshall
Christelle Hes	...	Kate
Jade Bouchard	...	La jeune bonne
Joël Vandael	...	Field, le chauffeur
Jacques De Bock	...	Le médecin (as Jacques de Bock)
Jean-Claude Leclère	...	Winter
Ninon Brétécher	...	Emma Flint
Léopold Cannon	...	Bébé Flint
Jade Greil	...	Bébé Flint
Anne Benoît	...	La mercière
Nathalie Eno	...	La cliente à la mercière
William Atkinson	...	Un mineur
Jean-Baptiste de Laubier	...	Duncan Forbes
Jean-Michel Vovk	...	Albert Adam
Marina-Aymée Philippe	...	Bertha Parkin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Russel Amos	...	Mineur
Tony Boots	...	Mineur
David Bourges	...	Mineur
Gilles Faurie	...	Mineur
Matt Gibson	...	Mineur
Tom Gibson	...	Mineur
Koby Golisman	...	Mineur
Chris Green	...	Mineur
Craig Lewis	...	Mineur
Keith Merson	...	Mineur
Jackie Mounetas	...	Mineur
Terry Mountford	...	Mineur
Richard Smith	...	Mineur
Tommy Templey	...	Mineur
Trevor Tyas	...	Mineur
David Wilks	...	Mineur

Directed by
Pascale Ferran

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Roger Bohbot		writer
Pascale Ferran		writer
D.H. Lawrence		novel
Pierre Trividic		dialogue

Produced by
Kristina Larsen	....	co-producer
Gilles Sandoz	....	producer

Original Music by
Béatrice Thiriet

Cinematography by
Julien Hirsch

Film Editing by
Yann Dedet
Mathilde Muyard

Casting by
Richard Rousseau
Sarah Teper

Production Design by
François-Renaud Labarthe

Costume Design by
Marie-Claude Altot

Makeup Department
Luk Van Cleemput	....	hair designer
Danièle Vuarin	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Olivier Guerbois	....	production manager
Yann Jouannic	....	unit manager trainee
Luc Tissot	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Barbara Canale	....	second second assistant director
Renaud Fely	....	second assistant director
Gabriele Roux	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Vincent Amiel	....	construction coordinator
Valérie Faynot	....	first assistant art director
Craig Price	....	property master
Fanny Stauff	....	second assistant production designer

Sound Department
Sandie Bompar	....	dialogue editor
Pascal Chauvin	....	foley artist
Jean-Jacques Ferran	....	sound
Jean-Pierre Laforce	....	sound mixer
Sylvain Malbrant	....	assistant sound editor
Fred Mays	....	post-synchronization
Nicolas Moreau	....	sound editor
Emmanuelle Villard	....	assistant sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Emmanuel Assenat	....	grip
Jean-Christophe Beauvallet	....	first assistant camera
Edwin Broyer	....	key grip
Nathalie Eno	....	still photographer
Christian Magis	....	electrician
Yves Michaud	....	Steadicam operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sylvie Régnier	....	wardrobe: England
Claire Tong	....	assistant costumer

Editorial Department
Sandie Bompar	....	assistant editor
Aurélie Laumont	....	color timer
Pascal Massonneau	....	color timer

Music Department
Adam Klemens	....	conductor
Petr Pycha	....	orchestra contractor
Béatrice Thiriet	....	music producer
Béatrice Thiriet	....	orchestrator
John Timperley	....	music mixer

Other crew
Christophe Besnard	....	assistant to producer
Lydia Bigard	....	script supervisor
Tatiana Bouchain	....	production secretary
Nathalie Depose	....	location assistant manager
Renaud Fely	....	location scout
Renaud Fely	....	second team director
Yann Jouannic	....	rush runner
Sandrine Vitali	....	production administrator

Production Companies

• Maïa Films
• Saga Film (I) (co-production)
• arte France Cinéma (co-production)
• Titre et Structure Production (co-production)
• Les Films du Lendemain (co-production)
• Cofinova 2 (with the support of)
• Région Limousin (with the support of)
• Région Provence Côte d'Azur (with the support of)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)

Distributors

• Ad Vitam Distribution (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• CP Classics (2007) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Cathay-Keris Films (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Contact Film (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Future Film (2007) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Kino International (2007) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Atlantic Film (2007) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Kino International Video
• Melimedias (2006) (Belgium) (DVD)
• Melimedias (2006) (Belgium) (video)
• Sagrera TV (2007) (Spain) (all media)

Other Companies

• 10 Twenty Two Casting  extras casting (UK)
• Eye-Lite  camera equipment provided by
• Eye-Lite  lighting
• Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The  orchestra
• Rudolfinum Dvorak's Hall, Prague  music recorded at

Also Known As:

Lady Chatterley et l'homme des bois (France) (TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality and graphic nudity.

Runtime:

168 min | 220 min (TV version) (2 parts)

Country:

Belgium | France | UK

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) | Norway:11 | Ireland:16 | Finland:K-13 | Australia:M | UK:18 | South Korea:18 | USA:R | Taiwan:R-12 (original rating) | Brazil:16 | Sweden:15 | Japan:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Singapore:R21 | Hong Kong:III | Netherlands:16 | Germany:16 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Château de Montmery, Ambazac, Haute-Vienne, France

Company:

Maïa Films

Trivia:

Director Pascale Ferran scheduled six weeks of intensive rehearsal to help put the actors at ease with each other in preparation for the explicit scenes.

Goofs:

Continuity: On the cabin porch, while drinking water, the two different glasses are switched from one character to the other between takes.

Movie Connections:

Version of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)

Soundtrack:

Valse triste, Op.44

I suppose it was bound to happen.

Six times this film has been made. This is the first with a woman as director (Pascale Ferran). It won five Césars (French Oscars), but surprisingly none for Ferran. The Best Director award went to Guillaume Canet for Tell No One, which also featured Marina Hands. She returns the following year in the Oscar nominated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

She starred in this film as Lady Chatterley, a woman whose husband (Hippolyte Girardot) was confined to a wheelchair.

The film was originally short of three hours, but this is the Director's Cut, and it runs 3 hours and 21 minutes.

It features outstanding cinematography of the French countryside, and beautiful music. In fact, as Lady Chatterley likes to take long walks in the woods, we get to see a lot of scenery.

She decides she wants to stop and rest in the gamekeeper's (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) hut. He is not too thrilled with this, as he is a loner.

A loner and a lonely woman. Will events transcend social status? Soon, the hut becomes more than a resting place, as she starts to plant flowers. She is visiting almost every day. It is the gamekeeper that makes a bold move that results in sex. One would not think that a Lady would be interested in sex on a hard wooden floor with nothing but a blanket, but she does. It is hard to believe she was happy as the foreplay was nonexistent and he finished in less than a minute, but she said she'll be back.

The second meeting was the mirror of the first, and it was on the third time in the woods that she finally got satisfaction.

The running naked in the rain and doing it in the mud was special. Afterwards, back in the hut, he decorated her with flowers. She looked like a wood nymph. She crosses the line here declaring her love for him.

She takes a vacation with her father and sister and her whole world changes. But, the love they had for each other doesn't change and the expression at the end was magnificent.