Lady Chatterley's Lover | Adaptations
Lady Chatterley's Lover was released as a movie in 1982 (Cannon Films, directed by Just Jaeckin). The cinematography effectively renders the English countryside and the imposing nature of Wragby Hall, the Chatterley family estate in the industrial Midlands. In that respect, the screenplay unclutters the novel, eliminating Lady Chatterley's family history and Clifford Chatterley's artistic and intellectual pretensions. That is, the movie treats the novel respectfully, but it also turns the book into a simpler story of a young vigorous woman burdened with a crippled husband. It is...
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