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The Chatterley Affair (2006)
Enthralling TV but glad it was late night viewing
What a clever idea! The complementary story of the two lovers and the tedious stuffy dialogue of the trial were neatly interwoven so that we were constantly wondering how things would turn out, even though everyone knows the book was eventually published. And has it depraved and corrupted us all? Well maybe it has. There were two people who certainly wondered about that, at the end. Excellent acting, especially in the court. Tennant was wonderful as Hoggart. The young wife who couldn't make out what was going on did a splendid job with a small part, totally convincing. Perhaps more so than the woman juror who made such an obvious pass at her husband. Nevertheless a great film that should have critical success.
Lady Chatterley (1993)
Nearly there but Russell's self indulgence gets in the way of perfection
I agree Bean was excellent but so was Richardson ( and very beautiful she was, too) I did not find Shirley Ann Field convincing at all. She was far too burnished and her accent was so forced that she came out as a caricature of a Northern woman. Her class was really not worked out, and as the film was about class above everything else we needed to know where Field was on the scale. She was too intimate at times, yet her strident Northern voice would have been more at home in a butcher's shop. The photography of the wood was perfect and echoed the out-of-this- world love story, so that the scenes in the village and forge were memorably upsetting. I didn't realise this was based on three books so found the end confusing. Lawrence would not have liked it so this is not a film for Lawrence fans, perhaps.