Lady Chatterleys Lover

Image Not Available Director: Just Jaeckin Dvd Release: 9th December, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Lady Chatterleys Lover is a sexually explicit novel by D H Lawrence written in 1928. The publication of the book caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes, including previously banned four-letter words & perhaps particularly because the male lover was working-class. The story concerns a young married woman whose upper-class husband has been paralysed & rendered impotent. Her sexual frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors, eventually culminating in their marriage. The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrences own unhappy domestic life & he made significant alterations to the original manuscript in order to make it palatable to readers. An obscenity trial followed its publication in Britain in 1960. The Obscene Publications Act of 1959, introduced by Roy Jenkins, had made it possible for publishers to escape conviction if they could show that a work was of literary merit. On November 2, 1960 the British publisher, Penguin Books, won the court case that ensued.

Just Jaeckin is a French film director. He was born on August 8, 1940. He debuted with Emmanuelle in 1974, starring Sylvia Kristel, setting the trend for a number of European softcore films. He directed The Story of O in 1975, starring Corinne Clery. The film met with far less acclaim than the book. It was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors until February 2000. Lady Chatterleys Lover was filmed in 1981. The film starred Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant & Nicholas Clay & portrayed the sexuality of the novel in a more graphic manner than could ever have been possible in earlier decades. The film attracted widespread publicity due to its explicit nature, but generally poor reviews & was only a moderate commercial success. The Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak was released in 1984, starring Tawny Kitaen. The film is loosely based on the bondage -themed comics of John Willie & on the figure of Gwendoline. François Schuiten worked as a graphic designer for the movie. Just Jaeckin at the Internet Movie Database.

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