I don't expect to find things in novels and stories. I remember reading The Prussian Officer for A-Level and feeling like his stories opened a door for me, but since then my interest in literature has drifted.
I'm no scholar, or paperback-touting expert. You talk about combating the tawdry stereotype of Lawrence I thought you expressed through the characters' desires a deep need to connect intimately with someone - and this is how you quoted Lawrence - with a sort of transcendence, a freedom, I suppose, beyond language and convention. The humiliation of the two sisters, of Gudrun in the nightclub and of Anna on the roadside, were moments that were genuinely hard to watch. Your actors played them sensitively and, in close-up, there was such a clear sense of pain and vulnerability, without it ever being indulged. I agree with the last contributor that the characters were very sympathetically drawn, despite not always being likeable.
I just finished watching WOMEN IN LOVE on iPlayer and really enjoyed the writing, the pace and the beautiful, aching language. Not because he was Dirty Bertie, as he has been dubbed, but precisely because he wanted to get away from the prurient arched-eyebrow approach to sex and the human body which so characterised (does it still?) the tutting English. and that's about it really.īecause, the truth is, he's a brilliant writer who tackled many complex issues, who put women at the very core of so much of what he wrote, and who examined sex in detail. Not because of a terrible and unedifying need for attention either (though clearly that is there) but because I want people to go back to DH Lawrence and read his books again.Īnd to do that, I need the audience to watch these films and realise that Lawrence is so much more than his popular image, which is of a man who was obsessed with sex and anti-women and. I think it's partly the time it's taken to write - a tad over six years by my reckoning - and partly the fact that it's my first adaptation, so I feel I need to be nervous for both me and dear old Bertie.Ībove all, though, I'm anxious because I'm as proud of this production as I am of anything I've ever written. It's always like this as a production nears its airing, but my emotions around Women In Love seem particularly raw.
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