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Women in Love

1969

Ken Russell

Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden ...

6.5

829

Drama. Romance The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters Gudrun, a sculptress and Ursula Brangwen, a schoolteacher. Rupert marries Ursula, Gerald begins a love affair with Gudrun, and the foursome embarks upon a Swiss honeymoon. But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"One of those exceedingly rare film adaptations of a vaunted literary work that successfully manages to fuse fidelity to the source material with its director’s distinctive visual style (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"This adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel marked one of Ken Russell's more successful forays into literature (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Far from good, but better than one might fear or expect."	NEU
United States	Variety	"Directed with style and punch by Ken Russell this is an episodic but challenging and holding pic"	POS

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