80
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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThere's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, even in the sight of rain and a lady's stocking.
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThis Lady Chatterley, winner of five César awards in France, feels bracingly fresh, vital and modern.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversIt's a movie as timely as it is thrilling to watch.
- 88New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoIntelligent and tasteful, even while being sexually frank.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinI found the first half-hour a snooze, but once I adjusted to the movie's rhythms, I was completely enraptured. Ferran weaves the love affair into nature, but not in the mystical, sanctified manner of Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain."
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThis is not so much a love story (and even less a story about love) than it is a movie of passionate loveliness.
- 75TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxWragby is a stately manor straight out of English House & Garden, rather than a sprawling, suffocating warren teetering on the edge of a coal pit, and sex is portrayed as a means of personal deliverance rather than a universal salvation, leaving Lawrence's admirers still waiting for the film that will finally do the novel justice.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsIt captures the animal attraction we call lust and carefully tracks its evolution to true love. For all its faults, this beautifully shot, sexually graphic film is a gem.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirIf a film can be both lush and cold, both erotic and cautious, that film is Lady Chatterley. It's a picture to honor and appreciate, not necessarily to love.
- 50The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThis might be pleasant to watch, in a floaty '70s-movie kind of way, if not for the film's groaning 168-minute length and abrupt thudder of an ending.