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Lady Chatterley (French with English subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
January 26th, 2025
Duration
168 min
Cycle
Love

An essential and timeless theme if ever there was one, love naturally holds a special place in cinema. Romantic, sensual, obsessive, ambiguous, forbidden, lighthearted or profound, love on screen is as diverse as the individuals who live its stories. Drawing form different eras, tones, and cinematic styles, this program brings together a selection of remarkable films that will warm your heart from the start of the winter season to Valentine’s Day.

Winner of five César Awards, including Best Film, in 2007

Lady Chatterley
Directed by
Pascale Ferran
Language
French with English subtitles
Actors
Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot
Origins
Belgium, France
Year
2006
Duration
168 min
Genre
Drama, romance
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

In the midst of the First World War, Constance spends monotonous days on the Chatterley estate with her husband, a coal-mining owner. When she meets Parkin, the estate's gamekeeper, a love story begins...

Lady Chatterley
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Pascale Ferran

Pascale Ferran is a French film director and screenwriter. From 1983 to 1990, she worked regularly as an assistant in television and as a co-writer. She also worked in cinema with filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Limosin, Philippe Venault, and Arnaud Desplechin. In 1990, her short film Le baiser won several awards in international festivals. In 1994, her first feature film, Petits arrangements avec les morts, won the Caméra d'or at the Cannes Film Festival and became an unexpected hit with audiences. The following year, alongside Anne-Louise Trividic, she wrote a film with young students from the National Theatre of Strasbourg, which she directed in the spring. Titled L’âge des possibles, the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1996 Venice International Film Festival. Her third film, Lady Chatterley, an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, was released in two version: one for cinemas and another, in two parts, for Arte. The television version acchieved the channel’s highest ratings that year, while the film won the Louis Delluc Prize and five César Awards in 2007, including for Best Film. She later directed Bird People (2014), and co-wrote Michael Dudok de Wit's animated film La tortue rouge (2016).

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