Women in Love
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Movie Reviews of Women in Love
Movie Review: Quitre disappointing 40 years later
Summary: 4 Stars
The title is revealing but probably misguiding. One woman who is drowning will drown her own husband who is trying to rescue her: possessiveness in death. She took him to paradise. The second wants total submission in the two partners and she castrates her husband of his desire to have a friend, a male friend. The third one wants to absolutely possess her partner but she also wants to be able to flutter around. Her man will end up killing himself in the mountain since he could not get over her the complete possession she had over him. In other words it is a bleak world and even a sad world. There is no hope for love, real love. Love is nothing but a trap in which the human rats we are accept to survive in order to have a social dimension and a domestic comfort we would not have otherwise. With age this film that used to be a cult film when it came out has become a rather trite story. I remember watching it in 1973 or so in Davis, California. It was on campus a film appreciated by women in the name of a certain vision of women's liberation, and by gays for the vision of male friendship between two men. I am quite disappointed today with the feeling I have just watched a piece of ancient anthropological discovery.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Movie Review: very compelling movie
Summary: 4 Stars
saw this film recently all the way through&the thing that grabs you is the natural way the film is presented in 1970 without compromise or hestiation.strogn writing&acting is what carry this film from start to finish.the pacing of the film keeps your attention from start to finish.Movie Review: Great performances but dated
Summary: 3 Stars
The performances are first rate: Glenda Jackson certainly deserved her Oscar, Alan Bates is always wonderful and Oliver Reed captures your heart by his very presence. The story is filled with the personal obsessions that drove Lawrence--finding some sort of truth in physical passion being the most obvious one. This film adaptation is hardly subtle--driving the same ideas home again and again---starting with the lesson of the parts of the flower in the opening schoolroom scene. Then there's the famous picnic scene where Alan Bates likens the fig to a woman's sexual part. Then there are all of explicit love scenes, including the nude male wrestling by the firelight scene between Bates and Reed.
I guess all of this was pretty hot stuff when the film was made, but it strikes me as almost silly at this point in time. Likewise the dialogue, discussing over and over the nature of love stikes me as way overly ponderous. Especially because no one solved any of their problems that way. I guess that's one of Lawrence's demons--over intellectualizing and then trying to compensate by some sort of physical activity, mainly sex. I'm sure many others have analyzed Lawrence's psyche endlessly so I won't bother, here, except to mention that the incredibly creepy mother of the Reed character certainly bears attention.
The cinematography is great, the costumes are good, the English countryside and shots in Zermatt are beautiful. There's a lot of entertainment value in the film if you don't take it too seriously. Ken Russell did, and obviously most of the readers here did too.
Movie Review: Women In Love With Bozos
Summary: 2 Stars
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."
Movie Review: What a disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
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.