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Storyline

Constance Reid is twenty-three years old when she marries Clifford Chatterley, a dashing Lieutenant in the British army. It is 1917. Their honeymoon is short lived. Clifford goes to fight on the Flanders battle front from which he returns a broken man. After two years of medical treatment, Sir Clifford is considered completely healed. Nonetheless, from the hips down remains irreversably paralysed. Left to her own devices, rendered sad and indifferent by most everything, Constance finds refuge in Parkin's symbolic territory, the middle of the woods. He lives a solitary life. Constance has no liking for the man in the woods. His solitude is too extreme. But Parkin's body emerges from the woods of Wragby and imposes itself in Constance's life.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2007
Zabaltegi Pearls
Berlin International Film Festival 2007
Panorama Special

César 2007
Best Film
Best Actress (Marina Hands)
Best Adaptation
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design

Releases

United kingdom (24 of August 2007)
Belgium (7 of March 2007)
France (1 of November 2006)