Lady Chatterley (2006)

Director:

Pascale Ferran

Writers:

Roger Bohbot (writer)
Pascale Ferran (writer)

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 | Pheasant | Hut | Lady | Daffodil

Awards:

10 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Marina Hands	...	Constance
Jean-Louis Coullo'ch	...	Parkin (as Jean-Louis Coulloc'h)
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Sir Clifford Chatterley
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)

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

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 (1993) (TV)

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.