DVD
Women in love
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb, Catherine Willmer, Vladek Sheybal.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Summary
With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time. Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, WOMEN IN LOVE traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard-willed industrialist as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship. Coupling earthy sensuality with kaleidoscopically stylized images, Russell pursues this quartet to the heights of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuality at its most liberating, dominating, and destructive extremes.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; two 2003 commentaries featuring director Ken Russell and screenwriter-producer Larry Kramer ; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive ; A British picture: portrait of an enfant terrible, Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career ; interviews from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson ; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set ; new interviews with cinematographer Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell ; Second best, a 1972 short film based on a D.H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates ; trailer.