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avg. user rating (1-10): 8
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131 minutes
UK (1969)
18
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WOMEN IN LOVE FILM REVIEW |
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A faithful and frank adaptation of DH Lawrence's 1920s-set novel concerning the complexities of love and friendship, from an unusually restrained Ken Russell
In the Midlands town of Beldover, chilly neurotic artist Gudrun (Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula (Linden) fall in love with lifelong pals, wealthy coalminer owner Gerald (Reed) and school inspector Rupert (Bates). During a holiday in Switzerland, Gudrun falls for a bisexual German sculptor, Gerald resigns himself to a snowy grave and Rupert and Ursula return to Britain.
"Women In Love was easier for them," director Ken Russell once remarked of his critics. "It was literal and had just the right amount of violence and erotic things in it. But I don't think it was as good as the others." Many would disagree. Even Alexander Walker, who'd later be pummelled by the business end of Russell's rolled-up newspaper live on television for daring to call The Devils "monstrously indecent", praised the film as "exceptional".
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