Screening and Discussion: “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”

Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, the 2022 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s classic novel stars Emma Corrin as Lady Constance Chatterley, whose happy marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley (Matthew Duckett) turns sour when he returns wounded and scarred from World War I. No longer able to walk, Clifford treats his wife as a nursemaid. For a while, Constance’s only companion is housekeeper Mrs. Bolton (Joely Richardson), but things change when she meets Oliver Mellors (Jack O’Connell), the new gamekeeper for the couple’s English estate. Soon, Constance and Oliver’s meetings become passionate trysts. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a celebrated story of isolation and intimacy, brought to fresh life in this absorbing new adaptation.

Producer Elizabeth Gabler and development executive Marisa Paiva from 3000 Pictures will join Carsey-Wolf Center Associate Director Emily Zinn for a post-screening discussion of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the process of adapting literature for the screen.