Directed by:
Ken RussellScreenplay:
Larry KramerCinematography:
Billy WilliamsComposer:
Georges DelerueCast:
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb, Vladek Sheybal, Michael Gough, Jennie Linden, Phoebe Nicholls, Brian Osborne (more)Plots(1)
Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, Women in Love traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters (Jennie Linden and an Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson) to a freethinking dreamer (Alan Bates) and a hard-willed industrialist (Oliver Reed)—as well as the men’s own erotically charged friendship. Coupling earthy sensuality with kaleidoscopically stylized images, Russell pursues this quartet to the heights of agony and ecstasy, crafting a breathtaking drama of human sexuality at its most liberating, dominating, and destructive extremes. (Criterion)
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Alan Bates
UK
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Oliver Reed
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Glenda Jackson
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Eleanor Bron
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Alan Webb
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Vladek Sheybal
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Michael Gough
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Jennie Linden
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Phoebe Nicholls
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Brian Osborne
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Catherine Willmer
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Richard Heffer
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James Laurenson
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Norma Shebbeare
UK
Best movies:
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Women in Love (1969)
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Sharon Gurney
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Women in Love (1969)
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Christopher Gable
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