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Criterion Collection: Women In Love (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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With this fiIm, the audacious Ken RusseII 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 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 industriaIist (Oliver Reed) as well as the men's own eroticaIly charged friendship. Coupling earthy sensuality with kaIeidoscopicaIIy stylized images, RusseII pursues this quartet to the heights of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuality at its most Iiberating, dominating, and destructive extremes.
TWO-DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration
- Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer
- Segments from a 2007 interview with RusselI for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive
- A BRITlSH PICTURE: PORTRAIT OF AN ENFANT TERRlBLE, RusseII's 1989 biopic on his own Iife and career
- lnterview from 1976 with actor GIenda Jackson
- Interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set
- New interviews with director of photography BilIy WilIiams and editor Michael Bradsell
- SECOND BEST, a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates
- TraiIer
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Linda Ruth WilIiams |
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