PREVIEW: Lady Chatterley’s Lover (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Emma Corrin (My Policeman), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Matthew Duckett (film debut), Joely Richardson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Ella Hunt (Anna and the Apocalypse), Faye Marsay (A Private War)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (The Mustang), director; David Magee (Life of Pi), writer; Graham Broadbent (The Banshees of Inisherin), Peter Czernin (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Elizabeth Gabler (film debut) and Laurence Mark (Jerry Maguire), producers; Isabella Summers (Call Jane), composer; Benoît Delhomme (The Theory of Everything), cinematographer; Nina Annan (film debut) and Géraldine Mangenot (Happening), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Lady Chatterley (Corrin), a young woman born into a life of wealth and privilege, finds herself unhappily married to the aristocratic Sir Clifford Chatterley (Duckett). In an effort to seek the desire and pleasure she feels she’s been missing, she ignites a torrid affair with Oliver Mellors (O’Connell), the groundskeeper on her husband’s country estate…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

D.H. Lawrence’s provocative erotic romance novel is re-adapted with The Crown breakout Emma Corrin taking on the title role, in ways that will make you feel all hot and flustered all over again.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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