Women in Love

Women in Love (1969) starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden. The novel by D.H. Lawrence is the inspiration for this movie, set in 1921, in which two men and two women fall in love. Their relationships go off in vastly different directions, one ending in marriage and the other in death. The British can be quite inscrutable, and I had rather a hard time figuring out what was going on in this movie. All the words were there, but they didn't quite fit together. Jackson won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance, but otherwise the film is undistinguished. It is, however, justly famous for a nude wrestling scene between Bates and Reed. (Subtitles in English are offered, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B