Last November, Venice was armored and painted black and white for the filming of the film.film adaptation Lady Chatterley’s lover, attracting the attention of all fans of one of the most famous novels of the twentieth century. Countdown expires: The film will be released on Netflix on December 2. and a few days ago, the first official images began to circulate. A very worthy cast for the director’s long-awaited film Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Mustang) written by David Magee (Life of Pi). Talented protagonist Emma Corrinknown to the general public for her role as Lady Diana in Crown thanks to which she earned the Golden Globe: for the completion of a love triangle, Matthew Duckett (Confession) what will play the role of Clifford Chatterley’s husband, and the turn will come Jack O’Connellseen in Skins As well as Continuous Angelina Jolie lent her face (and more) to her lover Oliver Mellors.

It will appear on Netflix shortly before the Christmas holidays (as happened with Bridgerton) Connie Chatterley’s story, the disgruntled wife of an English lord paralyzed during the First World War, who will take refuge in the arms of Oliver Mellors, gamekeeper of their noble estate, is also married. This is another adaptation of the novel by David Herbert Lawrence, starting with the first written by Mark Allegre in 1955, ending with a 1981 remake and the last one in 2015 starring Richard Madden. game of Thrones As well as Bodyguardas the sensual and daring Mellors.

Expectations for the desired feminist interpretation are high. a classic that has all the paradigms of female sexual emancipation and liberation. Lady Chatterley is a rebellious, revolutionary and controversial heroine who opposes social conventions and patriarchy. A female protagonist who has sex without taboos in safe and forceful sexual exploration without imposition.

Sexual right has always been an exclusively male privilege, and for this reason, the release of the novel by David Herbert Lawrence in 1928 in England, still imbued with Victorian morality, caused a lot of scandals. The obscenity stems less from the erotic descriptions than from the fact that a woman from a good family committed adultery. It was only in the sixties of the last century that it was republished at home in an uncensored version (in Italy, the book was published only after Lawrence’s death, in 1948). ed.).

(Good) conditions for adaptation associated with Spirit of time they are all there. “It is scary that little has changed since the 1920s. We women are still fighting for equality and the idea that a woman is free is still considered outrageous. Just look at what happened to Rowe vs. Wade and what she stands for. Iran,” director de Clermont-Tonnerre told the English edition Fashion“This is a book about a woman’s journey to control her body, her sexuality and her life.”