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The Rainbow (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Moscow International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ken Russell

Written By:
D.H. Lawrence (novel)
Ken Russell

Actors:
Sammi Davis ..... Ursula Brangwen
Paul McGann ..... Anton Skrebensky
Amanda Donohoe ..... Winifred Inger
Christopher Gable ..... Will Brangwen
David Hemmings ..... Uncle Henry
Glenda Jackson ..... Anna Brangwen
Dudley Sutton ..... MacAllister
Jim Carter ..... Mr. Harby
Judith Paris ..... Miss Harby
Kenneth Colley ..... Mr. Brunt
Glenda McKay ..... Gudrun Brangwen
Mark Owen ..... Jim Richards
Ralph Nossek ..... Vicar
Nicola Stephenson ..... Ethel
Molly Russell ..... Molly Brangwen

Synopsis:

Ken Russell's loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructor. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (teaching), she has an affair with a young Army officer, who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks with him, and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.

Director Ken Russell returns to the D.H. Lawrence territory that had earlier served him well in Women in Love. Sammi Davis plays Lawrence's Welsh heroine Ursula Brangwen, daughter of a wealthy mine owner, who is first seen as a child given to literally chasing rainbows. Disappointed that she can never have the real thing, the older Davis seeks out figurative rainbows in the form of sexual fulfillment. Neither heterosexual nor homosexual affairs fully satisfy Davis, because no one lover can match the 'ideal' the girl has created in her imagination. Davis' disappointment in the world is paralleled with the sorry lot of the wives of the local coal miners, who have adapted to their lives - something Davis can never do, will never do. Stately despite its raw subject matter, The Rainbow was filmed just before Russell's outrageous sword-and-sorcery fantasy Lair of the White Worm; since both films utilize many of the same cast members, the two pictures might make an astonishing double feature.

A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.

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