![]() ![]() The French were there again in 1981 with the notorious Just Jaeckin, director of Emmanuelle, and using his softcore muse from that series, Sylvia Kristel, in the titular role, and English actor Nicholas Clay as Mellors, fresh from his unsheathing work as Lancelot in John Boorman’s Excalibur. Starring Danielle Darrieux in L’amant de Lady Chatterley, a film that itself was banned in New York for “promoting adultery”. ![]() Them have come from the French: the first before the ban was lifted, in 1955, There haven’t been many big screen adaptations of Chatterley, and most of It’s a beautiful-looking picture, photographed with full sensuality by French cinematographer Benoît Delhomme (who began his career on the pastoral adaptations of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources) and who works an almost fairytale magic here on the Welsh countryside, just outside Chirk. The latest version, for which you might well make sure your age-appropriate filters are working on Netflix, is directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, a Paris-born filmmaker who started her career as an actor and is now entrusted with making Britain’s favourite dirty story look sexy. So why do only the French get to make movies about this? ![]()
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