Women in Love ( 1969 ) ( Love )

Women in Love ( 1969 ) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Love
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
131 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ken Russell

Written By:
D.H. Lawrence
Larry Kramer

Actors:
Alan Bates ..... Rupert Birkin
Oliver Reed ..... Gerald Crich
Glenda Jackson ..... Gudrun Brangwen
Jennie Linden ..... Ursula Brangwen
Eleanor Bron ..... Hermione Roddice
Alan Webb ..... Thomas Crich
Vladek Sheybal ..... Loerke
Catherine Willmer ..... Mrs. Crich
Phoebe Nicholls ..... Winifred Crich (as Sarah Nicholls)
Sharon Gurney ..... Laura Crich
Christopher Gable ..... Tibby Lupton
Michael Gough ..... Mr. Brangwen
Norma Shebbeare ..... Mrs. Brangwen
Nike Arrighi ..... Contessa
James Laurenson ..... Minister

Synopsis:

Women in Love is director Ken Russell's adaption of D.H.Lawrence's novel of the same name. Growing up in the sheltered society of 1920s England, Gudrun and Ursula know little about the ways of love. So when they pursue thrilling, torrid affairs with a notorious playboy and a brooding philanderer, what they discover about their lovers, and themselves, may be more all consuming and dangerously volatile than they ever dared imagine. Starring some of Great Britain's finest actors, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson, who won an Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Women in Love will probably best be known for the infamous nude wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed.

It's post-WWI in the Midlands. Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen are sisters from a working class family, both teachers, while Gudrun is also an artist. From a higher social standing, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich are best friends, Rupert a school inspector, Gerald a mining heir who currently manages the town's coal mine itself. In separate situations, each pair talks about their individual feelings concerning emotional love, marriage, the associated physical act of sex, and whether each of those three components can or should exist without the other two. The four individuals are all aware of the others, but are brought together into a more intimate situation when pretentious Hermione Roddice invites the Brangwen sisters to a weekend gathering at her country mansion, the gathering to which Rupert - her boyfriend - and Gerald are also invited. Hermione has ulterior motives in inviting the sisters, Gudrun who is more aware of that motive than Ursula. Regardless, from that weekend, Rupert and Ursula, and Gerald and Gudrun begin relationships with each other. All four are different in mentality, each requiring something different from their respective relationship. As such, each of the two couplings end up taking different paths. Based on those needs and wants, the question also arises if a partner or spouse can truly fulfill all the emotional needs - "love" - of the other being only one of two genders.

The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters Gudrun, a sculptress and Ursula Brangwen, a schoolteacher. Rupert marries Ursula, Gerald begins a love affair with Gudrun, and the foursome embarks upon a Swiss honeymoon. But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Rupert and Ursula learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Gerald cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Gudrun.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 30 January, 2019.