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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This DVD has had so many scenes removed (censored) it is now nothing like the one originally shown on TV, to the point where if one had never read or seen Sons and Lovers it would make no sense at all, the scene where Clara ( Esther Hall) says that it is no longer tenable for her to remain in her position at work, one has to wonder why as in this version it seems that nothing had gone on between them just stange looks. If anyone knows where to obtain the orignal uncut version this would make a lot more sense.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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ASIN:B00007KFNT Sons And Lovers [2003]]]
DH Lawrence spent years trying to stop his early publishers from expergating his novels,and not until recently, when the Cambridge University Press restored all his works to their original composition,have we been able to read his novels with the original intended text
Sons and Lovers had almost 80 passages,a tenth of the book,removed by the original publisher, but at last we can now read the book as intended.
I didn't see this adaptation first time round, but I was given it has a Christmas present by my daughter who knows I am a Lawrence fan.
Well I have to say it has been a very disappointing experience viewing this 2002 ITV production.
This film has simply turned the clock back and spoilt what is probably one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Where is Arthur the 4th child,a more important character in the Morel household than Annie.The relationship between Paul and Mirian was a long, close, friendship which covered many years from adolesence to adulthood,with Paul spending many days at the farm with Miriam and her brothers.The film gives the impression that they didn't meet till much later. Where was the very important holiday Paul took with Dawes and Clara near the end of the book? The sex scenes were base,cold and brutal, whereas Lawrence gave them an almost spiritual experience.
This film had over 3 hours to get the story right and failed miserably. No film can be expected to relate a book fully,but this adaptation left far too many gaps. Sorry.
DH Lawrence spent years trying to stop his early publishers from expergating his novels,and not until recently, when the Cambridge University Press restored all his works to their original composition,have we been able to read his novels with the original intended text
Sons and Lovers had almost 80 passages,a tenth of the book,removed by the original publisher, but at last we can now read the book as intended.
I didn't see this adaptation first time round, but I was given it has a Christmas present by my daughter who knows I am a Lawrence fan.
Well I have to say it has been a very disappointing experience viewing this 2002 ITV production.
This film has simply turned the clock back and spoilt what is probably one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Where is Arthur the 4th child,a more important character in the Morel household than Annie.The relationship between Paul and Mirian was a long, close, friendship which covered many years from adolesence to adulthood,with Paul spending many days at the farm with Miriam and her brothers.The film gives the impression that they didn't meet till much later. Where was the very important holiday Paul took with Dawes and Clara near the end of the book? The sex scenes were base,cold and brutal, whereas Lawrence gave them an almost spiritual experience.
This film had over 3 hours to get the story right and failed miserably. No film can be expected to relate a book fully,but this adaptation left far too many gaps. Sorry.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This adaptation of DH Lawrence's 1913 novel Sons And Lovers is a very mediocre one- I'm not definitively sure why. Part of this may be the fact it is centred around Sarah Lancashire- an actor of limited talent (it was also part of her "Golden Handcuffs" deal with the TV channel who produced this). Or it could be the fact that like the majority of costume drama's based on the canon of classics, it ends up being a lazy adaptation aimed at the foreign market in terms of sales (the heritage work) or those who can't be bothered to read the book, but love drama rooted in a period.
Of course, you can't expect an exact translation of a novel (there is no definitive reading & this has been adapted before- most recently in 1981)- but the simplification that occurs here. It fails to say anything about the book or era it depicts- unlike a BBC TV adaptation of The Rainbow in the 80's, or Ken Russell's versions of Women in Love, The Rainbow (again) & Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lawrence's work is simplified here into a series of sex scenes between Paul & Clara, then Miriam.
I never thought I'd complain about too much sex on screen, after all most TV revolves around sex in forms of affairs in soaps/MOR TV drama- but rarely shows it. Here we get full-frontal nudity- which I think is fine, after all- most people are naked when they have sex. But it overplays the nudity & sex, becoming repetitious and placating the idea that it's OK in this instance- cos it's based on a classic (do we get similar nudity in "Golden Handcuff"-based TV drama? The answer is no). Nothing is really said with the frequent depiction of sex, this is not David Cronenberg's Crash- so it comes across as a titillating excuse to show pubic hair on screen. Ken Russell also used full-frontal nudity in Lady Chatterley's Lover- but he did say other things also- whereas this adaptation was erring towards a classy form of titillation- which has been prevalent since 1996's Moll Flanders.
This adaptation is watchable, particularly nice to see more roles for women on screen, pity they erred towards stereotypes- I do think that Esther Hall (as Clara) & Lyndsey Marshal (as Miriam) were notable in their performances- I would like to see these actors used in TV drama that has some guts & originality. This was just adaptation by numbers- more Nanchero-style period nonsense than a work approaching any complexity- which is to be found in Lawrence's classic novel. Which is not only far superior, but a lot cheaper than this...
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Well worth watching
Although I was put off buying this for a while due to the "severly cut" comments I thought I would take a look anyway. Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. King
Trouble down t'telly
A pretty successful TV adaptation of Lawrence's novel, nicely filmed in more-or-less the original Nottinghamshire locations. Read more
Published 16 months ago by R. A. Lloyd-Jones
Wouldn't recomend
Bought this for my daughter's A level English course as was recommended by her teacher for class to obtain a copy. Read more
Published on 5 May 2010 by bookworm
Do try it
I think I must have watched a different version to the other reviewers. I watched the DVD almost immediately after I had finished the book for the first time. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by Norrette
Sons and Lovers
This is an excellent adaptation of Lawrence's boigraphical work.
If you are not used to Lawrence you will find it hard viewing, full of the mudane bleakness that was... Read more
If you are not used to Lawrence you will find it hard viewing, full of the mudane bleakness that was... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2003 by S. Hebbron
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