Women In Love DVD

Novelist, critic, artist and poet, D H Lawrence is one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature whose writing has been praised, banned, studied and adapted for the screen over the past 90 years. His novels, Women in Love and The Rainbow (melded together for the screen for the first time in line with Lawrence’s original vision) focus on the lives and loves of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen as they struggle with their own loves, desires and passions.

The Rainbow was banned on publication whereas Women in Love was published to a storm of protest about its explicit content in 1920. This star-studded adaptation for BBC Four explores the nature of love, relationships between men and women and the brutal impact of the First World War in transforming a rural community into 20th-century modernity.

Ursula (Rachael Stirling – Boy Meets Girl, Tipping the Velvet, The Young Victoria) is a teacher in a small provincial mining town. Her sister Gudrun (Rosamund Pike – An Education, Pride and Prejudice, Die Another Day) is an artist, living a bohemian life in London. The drama follows their relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin (Rory Kinnear), a school inspector, and Gerald Crich (Joseph Mawle), an industrialist.

As Ursula and Rupert’s friendship and love develops, Gudrun and Gerald’s stormy destructive relationship begins to spiral out of control. The story culminates in a journey abroad that ends in destruction and despair.

Produced by Company Pictures, this two-part 90 minute drama is re-told beautifully for TV. This sumptuous drama is a must-have to own on DVD from 11th April 2011.

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