90
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
This Lady Chatterley, winner of five César awards in France, feels bracingly fresh, vital and modern.
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70
If 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.
80
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
I 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."
80
This is not so much a love story (and even less a story about love) than it is a movie of passionate loveliness.
75
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
It 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.
75
Wragby 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.
100
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, even in the sight of rain and a lady's stocking.
88
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
It's a movie as timely as it is thrilling to watch.
50
The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson
This 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.
88
Intelligent and tasteful, even while being sexually frank.