Despite a growing portentousness towards the end, and moments of silliness scattered throughout, a surprisingly restrained, even respectful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel.

| Jun 11, 2019

Directed with style and punch by Ken Russell, this is an episodic but challenging and holding pic.

| Jun 11, 2019

Yet it is to the film's great credit that, in depicting that "puritanical insistence," heterosexuality is revealed to be the most unnatural form of coupling.

| Aug 14, 2018

Bates and Reed's homoerotic sparring would be sexy and shocking in any context. But Women in Love's talkier scenes are more exciting than any screen nudity could be.

| Nov 29, 2017

Ken Russell is interested in using the novel's sexually charged characters as figures to be placed into a series of fevered tableaux.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2017