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A quartet of nuanced performances and Ken Russell's off-kilter direction brings D.H. Lawrence's battle of the sexes to tactile life. Close friends Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) and...
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A sterling confluence of three distinct icons, Women in Love is a key masterpiece of 1970s era British cinema, and one which has outlasted its infamous bits to reveal a decadent, lush, study on...
Jan 7, 2015 · Despite a growing portentousness towards the end, and moments of silliness (memorably, the fireside nude wrestling scene between Bates and Reed) scattered throughout, a surprisingly restrained,...
Nov 26, 2017 · Suffused with earthy carnality, Ken Russell’s 1969 adaptation of Women In Love uses D.H. Lawrence’s at times overwrought prose as license for flights of extravagant lyrical reverie: musical interludes, bizarre interpretive dance sequences, copious sex scenes, and—perhaps most famously—a naked fireside wrestling match between Alan Bates ...
Gerald, the mineowner’s eldest son who’s engaged in a ruthlessly pragmatic mission to modernise a declining, paternalistic operation, is a force of nature much given to squiring women of low repute and gouging his horse’s flanks as he races it against a train.
131 minutes. Certificate: 18. Original Title: Women In Love. Both D. H. Lawrence and Ken Russell have had a love-hate relationship with the critics, and as many would castigate as commend the...
Women in Love is a 1969 British romantic drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, and Jennie Linden. The film was adapted by Larry Kramer from D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel Women in Love. It was the first film to be released by Brandywine Productions.
