Women In Love

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Summary: 'WOE! MAN IN LOVE"
Review: Can you really do better that Alan Bates AND Oliver Reed? I love everthing about this movie. It is filmed so beautifully and Glenda Jackson's performance gives me the chills. Many people know about this film because of its treament of sexuality, but it is not raunchy or tasteless, it is perfect. This is one of my favorite movies to curl up and watch on a rainy afternoon. I suppose it is dated, but give it a chance and as crazy as it sounds, you too will start to fall in love.

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Summary: A beautiful film
Review: Can you really do better that Alan Bates AND Oliver Reed? I love everthing about this movie. It is filmed so beautifully and Glenda Jackson's performance gives me the chills. Many people know about this film because of its treament of sexuality, but it is not raunchy or tasteless, it is perfect. This is one of my favorite movies to curl up and watch on a rainy afternoon. I suppose it is dated, but give it a chance and as crazy as it sounds, you too will start to fall in love.

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Summary: Mulheres Apaixonadas
Review: Como a eclosao de um embate latente entre sensualidade e intelecto.

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Summary: Excellent presentation of Lawrences warm blooded themes
Review: Film versions of novels rarely get everything right but this comes pretty close. I especially like how effective the film is at conveying the importance of the body and physical sensation so vital in Lawrence's writing. I think a film can only attempt to show what the book more specifically says so to the mind the book will always be preferred but with a writer like Lawrence film makes perfect sense. In fact Lawrences flaw is perhaps that he at times uses too many words when an image would suffice. So I love that someone as visually audacious as Ken Russell made this film. I've seen it many times and always love different things about it. Russell is usually equated with excess but here everything exists in just the right amount, nothing is overdone, he finds just the right way to convey literary content without overly revering it and so framing it too neatly. Russell remains true to the book,and to his credit the way he injects the Lawrentian themes enlivens his characters, make them seem even more vital which is no small accomplishment and so the film never feels "literary" even though it is very literary in the best sense. To Lawrence love and any kind of relationship was always marked with struggle and restlessness because it could never be perfected. He was not interested in the bourgeoisie convention of marriage which domesticated love into something else but in its truest most uncompromised state. So in this film Ken Russell gives us that. Not every detail of the whole story but the essential feeling of love as experienced by four very different temperaments and all four main characters are very different types indeed, and all react differently to passion and interpret its meaning differently also. The most beautiful scenes are the wordless ones when the characters stop analyzing what their lives are about and allow themselves to simply inhabit their own passion and instincts. I think Russell is very true to Lawrence's concerns, perhaps shares them, but articulates them in his own visual way which really makes this a kind of collaboration with Lawrence as some of the scenes have no precedent in the book. The characters all remain complex and interesting and much remains unresolved because it is unresolvable. He also did a version of Women in Love's companion novel The Rainbow which is only about half as good.

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Summary: Warning: A Serious Masterpiece
Review: Folks seeking light-hearted romance need go elsewhere.

I recommend that you rent the film first. If it strikes a chord, you will want to see it many times, for it is superbly realized on the screen and will teach you something every time you see it. But some may be put off by the highly literate dialog, the general lack of humor, and the frequent use of symbolism--a technique that may be confusing to some, revelatory to others.

That being said, the offers a deep and wide-ranging examination of the manifestation of love as reflected in four characters, the actors for whom give performances of a lifetime.

The overall theme is that love is a compelling business, driven by nature, offering greater rewards for those who risk facing their inner selves, but deadly dangerous.

Ken Russell's realization succeeds in so many areas, one could write a book. One important element reflects Russell's experience as a ballet dancer: the movement of actors and camera have a musical fluidity as seductive as the passions of the characters.

For those who treasure serious filmmaking, this edition, with priceless commentary by director and screenwriter, belongs on the "10-best" shelf.

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Summary: Women In Love With Bozos
Review: I haven't read the book, but I have read "Lady Chatterly's Lover",and this film seems to follow D H Lawrence's theme: Women are immature, emotional, unreasonable, manipulative creatures. Men are weak, misguided, and ever so vulnerable to a woman's whims. Men's downfall is women.

This film contains much skinny-dipping, interpretive dancing, nude male wrestling, and animal cruelty. The ending was a joke. Two stars for the beautiful scenery and cinematography. The actors did their best with what they had to work with.

While watching this video, I was reminded of a saying by Cher: "Some women get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."

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Summary: it is also an everlasting remembrance of the great O.Reed!
Review: i loved him! i met him once on same filmsetting! and he said to me you are the only gentleman around here,as we said goodbye(both very drunk!)and kissed eachother(we would never meet again-what a pity!)i loved him as person and i loved his genius -his talent-i say: since my my adoration for beloved charles laughton i have never had the feeling of mystic("geheimnis") and anglosaxic-celtic beauty in spirit and body! morning for unic lover and artist! jon laxdal actor,author and theaterdirector in Kaiserstuhl;switzerland(e-mail:[e-mail])-(if you want to cry with me!)he left us only a few hours ago!

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Summary: This one really is a classic
Review: If I had to list the 10 best films ever made, Women in Love would certainly make the grade. The acting is outstanding and the script intelligent. Add to that superb sets and costumes, a beautiful score, and some gorgeous cinematography (who can forget the image of Gerald in the snow?) .When I first saw this faithful adaptation of the Lawrence novel, it left me stunned for days. Few pictures ever achieve the rich dimension of Women in Love.

--A Guy in San Fran

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Summary: What a disappointment
Review: One of the great pleasures of seeing this film in the theatre was the lush green of the English countryside. This print (or pressing) looks like it was abandoned on a deck chair in the south of France ... dry and faded.

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Summary: A Must MUST see for all.
Review: One of the most magnificent films and most sensuous ever made. I rented "Women in Love" years ago over and over again, until I gave up and finally bought a copy. I have grown attached to this film. Glenda Jackson deservedly won oscar for her portrayal as Gudrun. Cinematographer should have won too for his elegant photography.

When discussing this film with other film buffs, they keep mentioning the "most" brilliant scene, the nude scene with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. I agree it's brilliant and exotic, but there are others that are beautiful, graceful and unforgettable: 1) Jennie Linden's nude scene with Alan Bates, circling gracefully around one another in a field while a beautiful score of music plays in the background. 2) Jackson's dance and graceful movement while reaching for a tree branch and slowly descending to the ground and back again, while Linden sings "Pretty Bubbles". 3) Linden's reconciliation with Bates starting with "See what a flower I found you?" 4) Jackson's gorgeous elongated eyes behind a veil putting on a costume in Switzerland while having an affair and Stravinsky plays in the background.

No matter how many times I see this film, I find new beautiful discoveries. I pledge people to give this one a chance and I promise it will be worth while and rewarding.