Women in love / MGM ; United Artists ; Larry Kramer and Martin Rosen present ; Brandywine Productions Limited ; written for the screen and produced by Larry Kramer ; directed by Ken Russell.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (8 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Oliver Reed, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb, Vladek Sheybal, Catherine Willmer, Christopher Gable, Sharon Gurney, Sarah Nicholls. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. Special features: Two audio commentaries (2003) featuring director Ken Russell and screenwriter-producer Larry Kramer ; Segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive ; a British picture: Portrait of an enfant terrible, Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career ; Interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson ; Interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set ; New interviews with cinematographer Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell ; Second best, a 1972 short film based on a D.H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates ; Trailer.
Summary:
"With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time. Set in an English mining community on the cusp of modernity, Women in Love traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters (Jennie Linden and an Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson) to a freethinking dreamer (Alan Bates) and a hard-willed industrialist (Oliver Reed)--as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship. Coupling earthy sensuality with kaleidoscopically stylized images, Russell pursues this quartet to the extremes of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuality at its most liberating, dominating and destructive"--Container.
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