I don’t normally review films. But this isn’t so much a review of the new Lady Chatterley but a review of the audience.
The film is based on D H Lawrence’s 1927 book John Thomas and Lady Jane, the first and less-well-known version of the story which was re-written as the controversial Lady Chatterley’s Lover and published in 1928.
Controversial? Oh yes! Explicit sex scenes, four-letter words, and perhaps the most scandalous aspect: the love affair was between an aristocratic woman and a gamekeeper. Crossing class boundaries! England shall fall! Read all about it.
Now you may think that society has changed since 1927. But no, our audience proved otherwise.