Women in Love (1969)
Directed by Ken Russell
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
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The few truly erotic scenes in movies—such as Alan Bates and Jennie Linden in Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969), Bates and Oliver Reed’s nude wrestling match in the same film, Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)—capture the abandonment and essence of the events, not the mechanics and certainly not for seven minutes.
It has a lyrical, natural, non-air-brushed sensuality to it that I haven’t seen in film since Ken Russell brought Women in Love to the screen in 1969.
The last time I saw this much man-on-man struggle was when Oliver Reed and Alan Bates wrestled by firelight, wieners flapping happily away, in Ken Russell's film Women in Love .
He’s befriended by Kevin, with whom he once wrestled breathlessly (like younger incarnations of Rupert and Gerald in Women in Love), and the two share more than just a secretive smoke.
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The Devils includes a protracted sequence of the decadent sexuality and rampant, lusty iconoclasm that arises in Loudon as Grandier's fall commences that seems as gratuitously over-extended and self-consciously "daring" as the infamous nude-wrestling match between Reed and Alan Bates in Russell's Women in Love .
Adapted from Aldous Huxley's nonfiction work 'The Devils of Loudon,' Russell's ("Women in Love," "The Lair of the White Worm") movie is full of the over the top, sexually explicit type of imagery the filmmaker is well known for but it is very clear that his intent was an indictment of religious hysteria and fascism.
This Ken Russell film (1980) is just as much a camp joke as Lisztomania or Mahler, but this time nobody's laughing, perhaps because Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay provided the first recognizably realistic context for Russell's obsessions since Women in Love.
Disappointing fare by Ken Russell who once gave the world the world such movie classics as Women In Love and Mahler.