Lady Chatterley: Love, Body and Soul
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ladydevine2004
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July, 13 2007
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 'Lady Chatterley': Love, Body and Soul
In today's era of casual sex, foul-mouthed rap and Paris Hilton videos, the 1960s flap over D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover", a sexually explicit story about the extramarital affair between a married aristocrat and her gamekeeper, seems quaint.
Almost 50 years ago, Lawrence's novel (which had been originally published in Italy in 1928) infuriated courts from the United States to India for its explicit language, its tacit acceptance of adultery and -- particularly in England -- an affair between different social classes. But as we sit down to watch "Lady Chatterley," a French screen adaptation of the book, in a way we are in perfect position to appreciate the film. Few of us -- certainly among those who would watch this film -- are so stymied by on-screen sex or adultery that we can't appreciate Lawrence's real purpose for writing the story: to show his readers the union between mind, soul and body necessary for human happiness. The French movie, based on Lawrence's second version of the story ("John Thomas and Lady Jane"), is about the sensual education of Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands), whose husband, Lord Clifford Chatterley (Hippolyte Girardot), is wheelchair-bound and impotent after being wounded on a World War I battlefield.
Wandering through her husband's estate, Lady Chatterley is entranced by gamekeeper Parkin (Jean-Louis Coulloc'h), who lives in a log cabin, builds animal traps and watches over the lush, wooded property. Shaped and hardened by a life of labor, he is, for her, an authentic sight. And she becomes obsessed with consummating her desire. Director Pascale Ferran makes this a sort of opera of two bodies, as the characters discover not only each other but themselves. And the French filmmaker cannily turns their corporeal discoveries into a moral mission, two desperately lonely souls crying for spiritual freedom in a world of moral constriction. |
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