Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s second feature. Her first film was in 2019’s “Mustang,” starring Matthias Schoenaerts as a prison inmate participating in a rehabilitation program involving the taming of wild mustangs. “Mustang” was one of the hidden gems of 2019, with Schoenaerts giving a great performance as a violent man filled with shame about his violent past. “Mustang” has the same tactile quality as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” and the same happening-in-real-time energy.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Imdb: 7.5
D.H. Lawrence’s novel does not start with plot points or scene-setting. Oh, no. In the opening paragraph, Lawrence bellows into a megaphone: “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, and we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.” Written in the aftermath of the first world war, with Europe in ruins, this passage was literally “words to live by.”
Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Writer (based on the book by) D.H. Lawrence Writer David Magee Cinematographer Benoît Delhomme Editor Géraldine Mangenot Nina Annan Composer Isabella Summers (Linda), Aysha Morton (Sindy), Christina Grant (Doctor Eve), Madeleine Garza (Carol),
