Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981 · Movie · R · 104 min · ★ 5.5 · 35% critics
In an English country estate, a woman caught between duty and desire faces a difficult choice after her marriage is changed by injury. With permission to seek intimacy elsewhere, she begins a relationship that stirs passion, jealousy, and tensions over class and respectability.
Based on Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Details
- Years
- 1981
- Release date
- 1981-06-29
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Critic score
- 35/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 (89 votes)
About
You might like this if you want a slow, sensual period romance shaped by class tensions and explicit material, somewhat in the vein of The Story of O or Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love; Not for you if you want brisk pacing or deep drama.
Pros: lush period setting; sensual romance; strong class conflict | Cons: often dull; stiff performances; shallow writing
Themes
- adultery
- infidelity
- based on novel or book
- nurse
- servant
- eroticism
- wheelchair
- country estate
- dysfunctional marriage
- class differences
- love affair
- britain
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Cast & crew
Sylvia Kristel
as Lady Constance Chatterley
Shane Briant
as Sir Clifford Chatterley
Nicholas Clay
as Oliver Mellors
Ann Mitchell
as Ivy Bolton
Elizabeth Spriggs
as Lady Eva
Pascale Rivault
as Hilda
Peter Bennett
as Field
Anthony Stewart Head
as Anton
- FM
Frank Moorey
as The Priest
Bessie Love
as Flora
Directed by Just Jaeckin