Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)

Lady Chaterley falls in love with a man from a lower social class after her husband returns paralysed from war.

The well-known story of written origin is adapted as accurately as possible in a more contemporary screenplay.

A bit rushed in order to fit in an hour, it lost much of the important details of the novel. Nothing factual really, only some personality traits for some the characters, with Mellors (the above mentioned lover) particularly affected. 

Portrayed with great passion by Richard Madden, it seems to me that many elements of Mellors' personality, such as his conversational wit and rough on the edges talent (i.e. quick, harsh and clever lines), do not translate almost at all into the film. The film manages to keep some of the word exchanges of a more childish nature, which, in the absence of their whole context, do not seem to be anything more than just that. Love is blind but not really that blind, and that is not properly explained in this version of the film. It is not the fault of any of the actors, all of this comes from the script, probably written by someone who did not understand the book. 

Connie, on the other hand, is transposed to the screen by such a delicate Holliday Graingier that I actually forgot that in the book she wasn't quite so perfect.

Even Clifford's character suffers from the lack of detail, but the talented and very versatile James Norton manages to do a lot with very little.

Screenplay: Jed Mercurio (after D.H. Lawrence)

Directed by: Jed Mercury

With: Holliday Grainger, Richard Madden, James Norton, Jodie Comer

You know Richard Madden from Game of Thrones (Rob Stark), Holliday from Borgia (Lucrezia).

Rating: 6/10