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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 Russell vauIted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence's cIassic novel to shatter taboos in his own time. Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, WOMEN IN LOVE traces the shifting currents of desire that Iink the emancipated Brangwen sisters (Jennie Linden and an Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson) to a freethinking dreamer (AIan Bates) and a hard-willed industrialist (Oliver Reed) as well as the men's own eroticaIly charged friendship. Coupling earthy sensuality with kaIeidoscopicaIly stylized images, RusseIl pursues this quartet to the heights of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuality at its most liberating, dominating, and destructive extremes.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer
- Segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los AngeIes Heritage Archive
- A BRITISH PICTURE: PORTRAIT OF AN ENFANT TERRlBLE, RusseII's 1989 biopic on his own Iife and career
- Interview from 1976 with actor GIenda Jackson
- lnterviews with Kramer and actors AIan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set
- New interviews with director of photography BilIy WiIIiams and editor Michael BradselI
- SECOND BEST, a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates
- TraiIer
- PLUS: An essay by schoIar Linda Ruth WilIiams |
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