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Priest Of Love
1981
This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author D.H. Lawrence (Ian McKellen), best known for his sexually explicit novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. In addition to exploring Lawrence's youth, PRIEST OF LOVE examines important events in Lawrence's personal and professional career, including his .. Read more
| Starring | Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, John Gielgud, Ava Gardner |
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| Director | Christopher Miles |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Christopher Miles adapted DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy and tried for years to make a film of Lawrence's risky Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent. Instead, as if in a mood of compromise, Miles made this biopic of the novelist, dealing with Lawrence's early life (in flashback) and the controversy his novels caused in England, bringing about his various exiles — to New Mexico and Provence where he coughs himself to death. The locations are often lavish but the movie feels puny, mainly due to Ian McKellen's pedantic, archly theatrical performance. Janet Suzman plays his German wife and there's a clutch of distracting cameos, from Ava Gardner to John Gielgud to Miles's sister, Sarah.
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An extremely disappointing film, seeming to consist of aimless travelling by fractious people who never have anything interesting to say. Stilted in all departments.
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High in the running for the year's dumbest art movie, opening on a shot of burning books, this launches into the life... read more on Time Out
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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Slow to start but worth the journey
With such a cast and script writer, this has to be a strong film - and it is. After 30 minutes we considered switching it off as it was very slow to develop but I think it is worth seeing through to the end. Fine, fine acting.
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Great but tragic
This is not the sort of DVD you would watch if you just wanted a pleasant evening in. The film is biographical, and so not a story as such, and like all biographies there has to be some interest in and or admiration for the subject of the biography to get something from it.
I have long been a great Lawrence fan, and so the film was a 'must watch' for me. Like many great artists before him, he was treated rather shabbily by society and life, and his untimely death was a huge tragedy. One can't help but wonder how much more he might have achieved with a little more appreciation in his lifetime, and a longer lifetime to enjoy. -
Worth watching
This is an interesting film about Lawrence, with a good turn by Ian McKellen. Perhaps it would be worth knowing something about his background first, before you watch, as the film makes one or two assumptions about the knowledge of the viewer.
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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Worth watching
This is an interesting film about Lawrence, with a good turn by Ian McKellen. Perhaps it would be worth knowing something about his background first, before you watch, as the film makes one or two assumptions about the knowledge of the viewer.
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Slow to start but worth the journey
With such a cast and script writer, this has to be a strong film - and it is. After 30 minutes we considered switching it off as it was very slow to develop but I think it is worth seeing through to the end. Fine, fine acting.
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Slow to start but worth the journey
With such a cast and script writer, this has to be a strong film - and it is. After 30 minutes we considered switching it off as it was very slow to develop but I think it is worth seeing through to the end. Fine, fine acting.
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Great but tragic
This is not the sort of DVD you would watch if you just wanted a pleasant evening in. The film is biographical, and so not a story as such, and like all biographies there has to be some interest in and or admiration for the subject of the biography to get something from it.
I have long been a great Lawrence fan, and so the film was a 'must watch' for me. Like many great artists before him, he was treated rather shabbily by society and life, and his untimely death was a huge tragedy. One can't help but wonder how much more he might have achieved with a little more appreciation in his lifetime, and a longer lifetime to enjoy. -
Worth watching
This is an interesting film about Lawrence, with a good turn by Ian McKellen. Perhaps it would be worth knowing something about his background first, before you watch, as the film makes one or two assumptions about the knowledge of the viewer.
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Christopher Miles adapted DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy and tried for years to make a film of Lawrence's risky Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent. Instead, as if in a mood of compromise, Miles made this biopic of the novelist, dealing with Lawrence's early life (in flashback) and the controversy his novels caused in England, bringing about his various exiles — to New Mexico and Provence where he coughs himself to death. The locations are often lavish but the movie feels puny, mainly due to Ian McKellen's pedantic, archly theatrical performance. Janet Suzman plays his German wife and there's a clutch of distracting cameos, from Ava Gardner to John Gielgud to Miles's sister, Sarah.
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An extremely disappointing film, seeming to consist of aimless travelling by fractious people who never have anything interesting to say. Stilted in all departments.
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High in the running for the year's dumbest art movie, opening on a shot of burning books, this launches into the life... read more on Time Out
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Priest Of Love
This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author D.H. Lawrence (Ian McKellen), best known for his sexually explicit novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. In addition to exploring Lawrence's youth, PRIEST OF LOVE examines important events in Lawrence's personal and ...
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