Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover seems like an early Christmas treat for period drama fans – and here’s our review to tell you if it’s worth watching.
This version of D.H. Lawrence’s controversial classic stars Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell, complete with nudity, sex, and plenty of drama.
So, is the Netflix’s newest period drama any good or just soft porn for the Bridgerton masses?
Read our review of Lady Chatterley’s Lover to find out…
***Warning: spoilers from Netflix’s film Lady Chatterley’s Lover ahead***
Lady Chatterley’s Lover review: Is it worth watching?
After Netflix’s handling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion – complete with bad dialogue changes, modern jokes, and some questionable casting choices – I wasn’t sure whether to trust them with another classic novel adaptation.
But with Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Netflix makes up for everything it did wrong with Persuasion.
At 2 hours and 7 minutes, it’s a faithful adaptation which keeps up the pace with D.H. Lawrence’s novel.
Book fans will know the 1928 novel was way ahead of its time.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover followed aristocrat Connie Chatterley, who blissfully marries Clifford Chatterley.
But he returns from World War One in a wheelchair and very much changed.
With her husband unable to give her the affection she desires, she begins an affair with the gamekeeper on her estate, Oliver Mellors.
Her society subsequently rejects her – but not for taking a lover, for falling in love with a man beneath her class.
Netflix has taken a couple of creative liberties, but none that will likely anger fans of the original novel.
Is there lots of sex in Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Netflix?
It’s true that what people usually like about period dramas is that everyone is just about to have sex but never actually does, and Lady Chatterley obviously differs.
It’s definitely more scandalous than Colin Firth’
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