Lady Chatterley
User Score
6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 30
  3. Negative: 6 out of 30

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  1. Liz
    Aug 5, 2007
    2
    Pretty nature scenes and a few good scenes (eg, Lady Chatterly's husband insisting that no one help him up the hill even though his motorized wheelchair os failing him) but about an hour too long. The sex scenes are painful to watch. After their third encounter, Lady Chatterly's lover says, "We came at the same time." ???? I hadn't notice that she got much pleasure out of the first two. And why should she have? He had all the technique of a 16 year old boy and it took about 30 seconds. In contract the end of the movie is a conversation between Lady Chatterly and her lover. It takes place in real time and it was agonizing to watch and listen to.… Expand
  2. KenG
    Jul 26, 2007
    4
    To Andy Scala, you are not an idiot if you dislike a certain movie. An idiot is someone who looks down on someone else who doesn't agree with him/her about a movie. An idiot is someone who has no respect for a difference of opinion about a movie. That makes you the idiot. As for this movie, as beautifully filmed as it was, the story is flat, lifeless, and feels tame and dated by today's standards. Of all the great novels, this story is probably not one of the better choices to make a movie about today. The story was daring and scandalous in it's day. But no longer. Take those elements out of it, and what you have left is a rather tame, bland story, that takes too much time to tell a story with so little going on. It seems the mindset of the filmmakers here was that we have to pay proper homage to this legendary story, by making a movie that is almost 3 hours long. The problem is, that there is not 3 hours worth of material in this story. The whole thing is stretched so thin, that even the sex and nudity starts to feel dull.… Expand
  3. Alexandra
    Jul 4, 2007
    0
    I cannot believe that this film received the acclaim that it did. I saw this movie at the Tribeca film festival, and my boyfriend and I walked out after about an hour because we were bored to tears. It was the slowest, most un-romantic movie I have ever seen...utterly devoid of the "passion" the critics speak of. The sex scenes were so awkward, the dialouge so sparse and boring that my boyfriend and I had to refrain from laughing. Please, do not see this movie, you would be wasting your precious time.… Expand
  4. Zaj
    Jul 14, 2007
    0
    JV is confused, along with everyone else who could have possibly seen and reviewed this film...What is wrong with everyone? 168 minutes of silence and the sound of nature did I miss something everyone else got? I bored to laughter...seriously the sex scenes were about as erotic as a dog licking his balls!

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Metascore
80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    80
    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."
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    It's a movie as timely as it is thrilling to watch.
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  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    80
    This is not so much a love story (and even less a story about love) than it is a movie of passionate loveliness.
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