06-29-2019, 05:11 PM
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The official BFI 87th best British film...
Women in Love (1969)
The 2016 BFI 4K restoration of Ken Russell's 'Women in Love' is one of the best looking blu-rays I've seen. Every shot looks perfect, all the colours are richly saturated, yet skin-tones are always balanced, sharp, detailed and pleasingly grainy. Even if the film hadn't been brilliant, I would still have spent a couple of happy hours admiring the transfer!
As the title suggests, it's about two women (middle class sisters) who begin intense love affairs with two upper class men, who are already best friends. Alan Bates has a wonderful careless charm, contrasting the dark brooding of Oliver Reed. The famous homoerotic fireside nude-wrestling scene between Bates and Reed lives up to it's reputation. Ken Russell's extravagant theatrics are somewhat subdued, he focuses more on character and romantic passion, although there is a beautiful sequence where he shoots two lovers sideways as they waltz through peacock feathers in slow motion, so they appear to be tumbling vertically through the frame. By the way, this was the first film from 'Brandywine Productions', one of only three they've made not from the 'Alien' franchise.
^ Love the trailer voiceover in this one.
Women in Love (1969)
The 2016 BFI 4K restoration of Ken Russell's 'Women in Love' is one of the best looking blu-rays I've seen. Every shot looks perfect, all the colours are richly saturated, yet skin-tones are always balanced, sharp, detailed and pleasingly grainy. Even if the film hadn't been brilliant, I would still have spent a couple of happy hours admiring the transfer!
As the title suggests, it's about two women (middle class sisters) who begin intense love affairs with two upper class men, who are already best friends. Alan Bates has a wonderful careless charm, contrasting the dark brooding of Oliver Reed. The famous homoerotic fireside nude-wrestling scene between Bates and Reed lives up to it's reputation. Ken Russell's extravagant theatrics are somewhat subdued, he focuses more on character and romantic passion, although there is a beautiful sequence where he shoots two lovers sideways as they waltz through peacock feathers in slow motion, so they appear to be tumbling vertically through the frame. By the way, this was the first film from 'Brandywine Productions', one of only three they've made not from the 'Alien' franchise.
^ Love the trailer voiceover in this one.
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