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The Rainbow [VHS] [1989]
 
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The Rainbow [VHS] [1989]

Sammi Davis , Amanda Donohoe , Ken Russell    Suitable for 15 years and over   VHS Tape
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe, Paul McGann, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings
  • Directors: Ken Russell
  • Writers: Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Vivian Russell
  • Producers: Ken Russell, Dan Ireland, Jeremy Bolt, Ronaldo Vasconcellos
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Universal
  • VHS Release Date: 1 July 2002
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000069JC0
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,166 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

A respectable and picturesque realisation of DH Lawrence's novel, 1989's The Rainbow is director Ken Russell's prequel to his 1969 version of Women in Love. By Russell's standards, this is a remarkably restrained treatment of Lawrence's novel, set in the Midlands in the 19th century: with its lush, rural setting and quaint bucolic soundtrack there are moments when you might imagine you're watching The Railway Children--until the sex scenes kick in, that is.

Her soul infused with infinite longing by the sight of a rainbow as a child, Ursula Brangwen grows up restless at the prescribed roles set out for women in Victorian England, which are stoically endured by her mother (Glenda Jackson, who played Ursula's sister Gudrun in Women in Love). She idealises her swimming instructor--the older, more experienced Winifred (Amanda Donohoe) with whom she enjoys a passionate, borderline lesbian relationship. She becomes a schoolteacher against her parents' wishes, and takes up with Paul McGann, who is somewhat tepid as a Boer War officer. Ultimately, however, she finds all of these limitations too constraining and finally strikes out on her own in search of true spiritual and sexual freedom.

On the DVD: This is a full-screen version of the film, ratio 4:3. The sound quality is fine as is the colour and sharpness, though like the film itself, not quite as ravishing as you might hope. Special features consist of a routine trailer ("She played by her passion, not by their rules") and disappointingly perfunctory "filmographies" of the director and cast: merely lists of their previous movies. --David Stubbs


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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
The Rainbow 24 Sep 2003
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I watched this video through with my mother and both she and I greatly enjoyed this film in fact she asked to see it again and again. Many nude scenes and but very enjoyable, if you like performing art then this is the film for you. It is a beautiful film that keeps one glued to the TV. A must for anyone interested, this is a British cinamas finest.
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splendid 26 May 2012
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This DVD gives a good feel for the period in which it is set, including very exotic and fashionable stiff collars on the female actors.
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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful
The Rainbow vhs 27 Feb 2006
Format:VHS Tape
The Rainbow is a really great story of a young girl called Ursula who has a brief affair first with her school teacher and then a passionate affair with anton, a young soldier, who she becomes engaged to.
Ursula finds that the prospect of being married to anton to restricting and she sets out on her own to experience life.
Paul Mcgann is great in this movie, some of his best work, he's perfect as the handsome young soldier.
This movie is definetly worth a watch.
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