Lady Chatterley (2006)

Pascale Ferran (Coming to Terms With the Dead) returns to the front ranks of French film-making with this beautiful adaptation of Lady Jane & John Thomas, the second version of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.Constance Reid (Hands) is 23 years old when she marries Clifford Chatterley (Girardot) a dashing Lieutenant in the British army. It is 1917 and their honeymoon is short lived. Clifford goes to fight on the Flanders battle front from which he returns a broken man, paralysed from the hips down. Constance's sexual frustration leads her into a passionate affair with Parkin (Coulloc'h), the gameskeeper - who choses to live a solitary life in the woods after separating from his wife. Constance falls pregnant and joins her sister and father on the Riviera where she plans to cover up the parentage of her child. On returning home she has to face the reality of her situation. Lady Chatterley tells the story of their impossible love.The story of an encounter, a difficult taming, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a slow return to the world of the living for him... winning 5 French Cesar awards in February 2007 and with a gracious break-through performance by Marina Hands (The Barbarian Invasions) Lady Chatterley is a coolly elegant and contemplative adaptation of a classic tale.