# Lady Chatterley (1993)

> A crippled aristocrat's wife is torn between loyalty to her husband and her awakening desire for another man.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/33780

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
- Episode runtime: 50 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Ken Russell
- Network: BBC One
- Cast: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Anne Field, Melanie Hughes, David Sterne, Hetty Baynes, Ken Russell
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104666/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: sensual, melancholic, intimate, frank, restrained

## Synopsis

Lady Chatterley (1993) is a British miniseries created by Ken Russell for BBC One, a four-episode period drama adapted from the novel by D. H. Lawrence. Joely Richardson plays Constance, Lady Chatterley, a countess whose husband Sir Clifford Chatterley (James Wilby) is left impotent after a crippling wartime injury. With his consent she seeks fulfilment elsewhere, and her affections turn toward Oliver Mellors (Sean Bean), the gamekeeper on the estate. The engine of the story is the slow tension between duty and desire, played out in drawing rooms, dinners and the quiet woods where the two meet. Each episode lingers on conversation, glances and the cost of secrecy in a rigid class system. Set in Edwardian England after the First World War, the series is a sensual, melancholic and frank romance that foregrounds emotional restraint and sexual awakening. Viewers who enjoy Pride and Prejudice and Brideshead Revisited will find its class-bound romance and taboo longing familiar, though its candour is bolder than either.

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