Anyone else see this? I loved it!

This is an amazing film and definately the best version I have seen. I hope to catch this a few more times in the theater when it plays in my area again. At first, I wasn't sure on the casting of Parkin but by the end I really found myself attracted to him.

I totally agree with you! I found the nudity so refreshing and the sex scenes were so different than they are done in Hollywood - it wasn't about timing, performance or ectasy - it was about the sexual awakening of one character and gradual love blossom between the two leads.

I actually had the opposite thing happen when I saw this film. There was a couple in their late 60s sitting behind me who murmured their appreciation throughout the film and left the theatre hand-in-hand and kissing each other's cheek! I thought that was great!

I loved how the director used colour also. Lady Chatterley wore mostly red but wore a green coat when going for her walks. Parkin was dressed mainly in green and white. Then, after Lady Chatterely had spent the night with him and finally fallen in love with him, she wore her white night dress and her green coat with no red. I really liked how the director used colour - reminded me of House of Flying Daggers.

Beautiful film! Can't wait to see it again!

This is a beautiful movie.

I watch a lot of European films, and if sex and nudity assists in the storyline then the Europeans don't hesitate to include it. The best films are about people, and people are about relationships, and relationships include sex. So if you have people and relationships, then you will have nudity and sex.

As an Australian, I am amused by the lack of nudity in American films. It can be a contemporary film about a developing relationship, and somehow they have sex while clothed. I am equally amused by the American actresses who decide not to do nude scenes. In Europe (or Australia), such actresses may have trouble finding a part.

For me, I much prefer sex and nudity and love and passion to violence!

I totally agree with you.
America and most americans (please note: most,not all) have this unexplainable fear of naked bodies.
Just because you're not embarrassed or disgusted(?!?) by a naked body it doesn't make you a perv, I'd say it shows you're a mature and sensible person.

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drudashoe913, I agree with you about this film; it was excellent, and I thought it was very faithful to the spirit of the novel. The sexual scenes were very naturally done...nothing obscene or voyeuristic about it at all.

I am a huge fan of French cinema, because I find their films much more interesting than most of our American films. I was talking with a professor about this a few days ago, and he agreed with me. He said that most of our films seem "shallow" in comparison to foreign films.

I also think it is difficult for a lot of people to appreciate a film like Lady Chatterley, because it moves rather slowly. Americans who grew up on the "instant gratification" type of film that moves fast and furiously over the screen usually find it difficult to adjust to "art" films, but I find those much more satisfying.

I loved it too and thought the director's use of photography, light and sounds (so many sounds from birds, insects, water and trees) translated Lawrence's verbal style perfectly. I think Lawrence would have approved of this adaptation very much.

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