The Boston Globe, December 23rd, 2007
HOME ENTERTAINMENT / FOREIGN DVD How do you make a movie of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" that matters in the 21st century? By emphasizing the one aspect of the story that can still shock: its gentleness. Filmmaker Pascale Ferran adapts an earlier version of D.H. Lawrence's novel, "John Thomas and Lady Jane," which lacks the class tensions and anger of the other versions. This "Lady Chatterley" is a slow-motion swoon back into Eden - a nature documentary about humans - and it's hypnotic. As Constance Chatterley, Marina Hands is a Klimt painting waiting to happen. Her husband, Clifford (Hippolyte G...
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