Women In Love details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Glenda Jackson, Michael Gough, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, Alan Bates, Eleanor Bron |
| Director: | Ken Russell |
| Genre: | Drama - Comedy |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Women In Love |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 5 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 02 Aug 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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So bad it's...bad
By captainvallo from London , 22 Jan 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Everything that's clumsy and dated about D.H. Lawrence leaps to the screen with cringe-making gusto in this unintentionally hilarious film.
Oliver Reed is miscast (Gerald Crich is meant to be cruel and glacial, not wild and hairy) and looks like he's dying of embarrassment. Poor Alan Bates has to explain why a fig is like a woman's bits and then eat one with a straight face. The girls pout and flicker their false eyelashes about a lot (See? Women have feelings too!). It's a stark lesson that some things really are best left to the imagination - the supposedly primal (homo)(erotic) masculinity of chums having a good nude wrestle doesn't really, er, stand up once people get their giblets out.
I would say it's worth it for a giggle, but long stretches of humourless pontificating somehow make it as dull as it is embarrassing. A bit like hearing the facts-of-life from a worthy, velvet-clad aunt who once had a 'very naughty' encounter with a moustached drama teacher some time in the mid '70s.
The ending is supposed to be elemental and tragic, but you can't help feeling if you were stuck in this movie you'd pray for the same fate!- Was this review helpful to you?
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(23)Has the Spirit of Lawrence
By Seedyvee (187 reviews) from Grantham , 30 Oct 2012Quite a fair interpretation of the novel and appropriate that the idiosyncratic Ken Russell should direct something equally idiosyncratic in its own way. The constant turning over of the theme of love in all its possibilties reflected interestingly the age in which the film was made.
Oliver Reed was superb as the deep thinking and reflective Gerald Crich while Glenda Jackson made an alluring Gudrun; the more complex character of Rupert was played very intelligently by Alan Bates but I thought Jennie Linden was rather too light and airy for Ursula.
D H Lawrence is not always an easy read and this film does give enlightenment.- Was this review helpful to you?
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why not
By a customer , 13 Feb 2012Utter codswallop though Glenda Jackson prancing around with a herd of cows is hilarious! D H Lawrence is almost impossible to adapt for film and this effort so clearly illustrates.- Was this review helpful to you?
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women inlove
By roots (4 reviews) from London , 03 Dec 2010rubbish. one of the worst films I've seen. so dated, so much a depiction of Lawrence' neurosis and misogyny. Typical of his opinion of women as objects of his pathetic attempts at heterosexuality.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Women in Love
By a customer from Cornwall , 06 Sep 2010This film is just as good as it was when I first saw it many years ago. I adored Alan Bates then and still do !!
Great acting and scenery. It's a very original film in the way it comes across, moving and beautiful.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Classic film
By Tweedie (30 reviews) from Powick , 10 Jan 2010A classic of its time- Was this review helpful to you?
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