Lady Chatterley (2006)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Very well executed

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Blistering performances.

I may have heard about this film, I knew it was a costume drama or something, I didn't realise it was French or based on a less known erotic tale by D.H. Lawrence, but I was going to watch whatever. Basically in a large estate near Sheffield, Sir Clifford Chatterley (Hippolyte Girardot) who has become paralysed from the waist down after returning from the Great War. His caring young wife Lady Constance 'Connie' Chatterley (Marina Hands) is lifeless and with no self strength, and she finds a quiet hut retreat when her physician prescribes the open air. This hut is where the estate's games keeper Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) lives and works, and what starts as an awakening with nature, pheasant chick and daffodils growing, soon gets more intense. Connie and Parkin soon begin an affair and become passionate lovers, she now feels radiant and he has opened up himself as well, the only thing stopping becoming much more is class and age difference. One of the most memorable scenes sees the lovers running naked through the woods while it is raining, making love in the mud, washing off and placing green flowers on their bodies. In the end Connie takes a trip to France with her father Sir Malcolm (Bernard Verleyand) sister, and the affair comes to a subtle end and she stays with her crippled husband. Also starring Hélène Alexandridis as Mrs. Bolton, Hélène Fillières as Hilda, Sava Lolov as Tommy Dukes, Jean-Baptiste Montagut as Harry Winterslow and Christelle Hes as Kate. Hands is really pretty with and without clothes as the free spirited Lady needing to find herself, and Coullo'ch gets his moments as her lover wanting this resolution, it is a simple enough story, the nudity does not stop you lapping up the love story, slightly long, but overall a most watchable period romantic drama. Very good!

It is a bit disconcerting to hear French being spoken for a movie set in England, but getting past that it is a very nice, slowly-moving 2 1/2 hour film.Set just after WW I, Marina Hands is Constance Chatterley, pretty and kind 30-something wife without children. Her husband is Hippolyte Girardot as Clifford, a wealthy 50-something man with a rather expansive land. He has various workers.Jean-Louis Coullo'ch is one of the workers, Parkin, who lives in a smaller home on the property, and also hunts and cares for some of the livestock, particularly fowl.Clifford seems like a nice man, but is paralyzed from the waist down, so his romantic life with Connie is a thing of the past. The family doctor tells her she must get out and get some air and exercise. With no particular intentions, one day Connie comes upon Parkin, bare from the waist up, washing himself near a small hut on the property, one that no one lives in. She observes him, and perhaps carnal passions stir, but she goes away quietly, that time. Eventually Connie and Parkin both succumb to their desires and lie down in the hut for utilitarian sex. They both obviously enjoy it, and soon are meeting regularly. They even start to fall in love with each other, even though both are married.Back at the mansion, after visiting her friend with a new baby, Connie tells her husband that she might like to have a baby. He responds that she must have someone else in mind because he can't do it for her. His only condition, the father must be English.The acting, cinematography, and story-telling are all good. Even though it is a rather long movie it feels real, and I never got tired of watching for the next development.In French with English subtitles.SPOILERS: In the end Connie and Parkin really are in love, and she is pregnant. His wife had returned but he obtained a divorce. Connie wanted to divorce her husband and use her yearly income to buy some land and have Parkin work it for her, and they become mates. But his pride would not let him be "kept" by a woman. As the movie closes she tells him to look her up if he ever needs her again.

Lush, leisurely paced movie that shows that sex is not obscene or vulgar. It's as natural as the beautiful fields and streams where the two main characters spend most of their time together. Watching them in this setting, their eventual sexual encounters feel natural and normal unlike so many movies were sex is treated as something dirty and shameful. Unfortunately, the ending just does not work. After drawing the viewer in with several long, lush, sensual scenes, the movie screeches to a halt after a short 5 minute conversation. It doesn't work and there's a few other scenes as well (the one where Lady Chatterley's waiting in her chauffeured car for her husband at the mine) that go nowhere. With a different ending and little editing, this could have been a masterpiece.

As you enter the cinema, I think there are several instructions certain viewers must first take heed of, as regards this film.Firstly, face facts, it's French, so don't be surprised if there are hardly four lines of dialogue in the first thirty minutes. This works marvellously as an introduction into the repressed yet sensual world of the characters, but if you know you're likely to get bored without having everything immediately explained, then please save yourself the bother.Secondly, it ain't all about the sex. If you're seeking XXXX thrills, again, don't bother.Finally, Lady Chatterley is based upon the second (earlier) version of the book, NOT the famously explicit and more widely published rewrite Lawrence ultimately settled on. Don't be expecting the clunky politics that isn't very relevant in the 2000's, instead enjoy a tale of love and freedom, of hope that two very different people can become a reason for one another's happiness within this overbearing world we're all inevitably a part of.As for the film itself, acting honours go to Marina Hands for an exquisite portrayal of Constance, truly from her performance every emotion can be felt without a hint of exaggeration. It's delightful stuff. Jean-Louis Coullo'ch's Parkin/gamekeeper is a good fit, for what really is the less starry role, and he handles everything, including a touching confessional scene, with an admirable strength and gentleness.Underpinning everything is the lavish production, sound and photography to make an audience feel as part of the forest setting, a tranquillity that intimates so much of what the story is trying to say.This is superb stuff.