PASCALE FERRAN - LADY CHATTERLEY

avant-premiere in the presence of the filmmaker

Lady Chatterley offers the audience a possibility to get re-acquainted with the work of Pascale Ferran, ten years after her laureate L’âge des possibles. The film is a contemporary cine-philosophical exploration of the phenomenon of sensuous love, inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s texts on English literature and based on Lady Chatterley and the Man of the Woods by D.H. Lawrence, the second version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Aristocratic Constance, imprisoned in her sense of marital duty, meets Parkin, the gamekeeper on a noble estate. To her this encounter is a slow, sensual awakening; to him it is a longed return to life. A meditation on how love is equated with the experience of change, and the possibility of attaining the special insight afforded by intimacy. In the same way as D.H. Lawrence’s novel stirred up a commotion in puritan England, Ferran makes a film contrary to the mores of today and the way in which desire is depicted in contemporary cinema and the broader cultural climate.

2006, 158’, 35mm, colour, sound, French spoken.

The Ecran d’Art series is a monthly screening of artists’ film and/or video jointly organised by argos and Cinema Arenberg, in collaboration with La Cambre Academy.