Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955)

Original title

L'Amant de Lady Chatterley

Directed by

Marc Allégret

Genre

drama film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

U

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married woman in a cold, distant relationship with her wealthy husband becomes involved with a gamekeeper on their estate. Their affair forces her to choose between social status and personal desire.

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What happens

Lady Chatterley's Lover (French: L'Amant de lady Chatterley) is a 1955 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret who co-wrote screenplay with Philippe de Rothschild and Gaston Bonheur, based on the 1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence. In 1955, the film was banned in New York because it "promoted adultery", but it was released in 1959 after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision. Of the six film adaptations of Lady Chatterley's Lover (two French, two British, and two American) this is the only one to be produced before the legal publication of the unexpurgated edition in 1960. Thus, the producers had only the censored version to work with. The film has a more optimistic ending than Lawrence's book. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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