Women in Love (1969)

Review: Women in Love (1969)

Director: Ken Russell

Cast: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron,

Alan Bates
Alan Bates
Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed
Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson
Jennie Linden
Jennie Linden
Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron

Plot: Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

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New releases from the BFI, 2016

New releases from the BFI, 2016

Two excellent recent Blu-ray releases from the BFI illuminate the extremes of high and low art in British film of the early 1970s. Ken Russell’s version of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is exemplary literary adaptation, while Don […]

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