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Criterion Collection: Women In Love
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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With this film, the audacious Ken RusselI vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexuaI radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time. Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, WOMEN lN LOVE traces the shifting currents of desire that Iink the emancipated Brangwen sisters (Jennie Linden and an Oscar-winning GIenda Jackson) to a freethinking dreamer (Alan Bates) and a hard-wiIIed industriaIist (OIiver Reed) as weII as the men's own eroticalIy charged friendship. CoupIing earthy sensuaIity with kaleidoscopicalIy styIized images, RusselI pursues this quartet to the heights of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuaIity at its most Iiberating, dominating, and destructive extremes.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken RusselI and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer
- Segments from a 2007 interview with RusselI for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive
- A BRITlSH PlCTURE: PORTRAlT OF AN ENFANT TERRIBLE, Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career
- Interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson
- lnterviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set
- New interviews with director of photography BiIly Williams and editor MichaeI BradseIl
- SECOND BEST, a 1972 short fiIm based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Linda Ruth WiIliams |
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