LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER Discovery

LA Premiere

Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre.

Adapted from D. H. Lawrence’s novel of the same name which was banned for obscenity, LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER is a sensual account of Lady Constance Chatterley (Emma Corrin) falling out of love with her upper-class husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley (Matthew Duckett), who had been left paralyzed after fighting in World War I. Restless and isolated on their large estate, Lady Chatterley begins a subtle flirtation with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors (Jack O’Connell), which soon blossoms into a torrid affair, one made all the more exciting with sneaking around. When rumors about their illicit relationship begin to surface, Lady Chatterley must choose between the comfort yet romantic malaise of her aristocratic life or the unbridled passion that she shares with the self-educated, lower-class Mellors. Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (THE MUSTANG) brings to life the sensuality of Lawrence’s classic novel in this electric adaptation. –Julia Kipnis