Priest of Love (1981)

Directed by

Christopher Miles

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

R

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This biographical drama follows author D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda during his later years. It shows their relationship and his struggles with censorship and illness.

intimateearnestcontemplativerestrainedperiodobservedliteraryfocused

What happens

Priest of Love is a 1981 British biographical film about D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda (née Von Richthofen) played by Ian McKellen and Janet Suzman. It was a Stanley J. Seeger presentation, produced and directed by Christopher Miles and co-produced by Andrew Donally. The screenplay was by Alan Plater from the biography The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore. The music score was by Francis James Brown and Stanley J. Seeger, credited jointly as "Joseph James". The film was first released by Filmways in New York on 11 October 1981 and then by Enterprise Pictures Ltd in London with a Royal Premiere on 18 February 1982. The film was then re-cut in 1985 by the director for the centenary of D.H.Lawrence’s birth, and was re-released in cinemas by Enterprise Pictures to greater commercial and critical success. All copies of the 1981 original version were legally withdrawn and are no longer available. The world rights are now owned by Milesian Lion and distributed by Screenbound International Pictures. This 1985 Centenary Version was then remastered in 2011 for a new DVD release in the United States (Kino International – standard DVD and Blu-ray) and in the UK (Odeon Entertainment – standard DVD, 2012). The extras on both DVDs include interviews with Ian McKellen and Christopher Miles, and Penelope Keith narrates "The Way We Got It Together", on the making of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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