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Women in Love

Women in Love

Drama · Romance · 1969

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Movie details

Women in Love

“The relationship between four sensual people is limited: They must find a new way.”

1969 Drama · Romance 2h 11m

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6.6 / 10

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Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Ken Russell

Written by

Larry Kramer

Alan Bates

Alan Bates

Rupert Birkin

Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed

Gerald Crich

Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

Gudrun Brangwen

Jennie Linden

Jennie Linden

Ursula Brangwen

Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron

Hermione Roddice

Alan Webb

Alan Webb

Thomas Crich

Vladek Sheybal

Vladek Sheybal

Loerke

Court is in session

Put Women in Love on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.