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Yvette and her sister Lucille return to northern England in the early 1920s after attending finishing school in France. Their father, a village rector, runs a very restrictive household which the sisters share with their demanding grandmother, spinster Aunt Cissie, and Uncle Fred. Lucille finds a job, but Yvette becomes restless in the rectory atmosphere. The rector's wife, who ran away with a lover many years ago, is held to blame for Yvette's independent behavior. The sisters go driving one day with Leo, the son of a village businessman, and they meet a handsome gypsy who tells their fortunes. Yvette becomes infatuated with the gypsy and later visits his camp. There she meets Mrs. Fawcett, a divorcée, and Major Eastwood, who defy the scorn of the townspeople by openly living together. Her visits continue, and she finds that she can freely discuss her dawning sexual feelings with the couple. Meanwhile, to enliven her life at the rectory, Yvette has promised her father to stage a revue for the benefit of the church, but she is dismayed when he bars the unmarried couple from attendance. Later, while she is at home with her grandmother, a dam bursts and sends a flood sweeping through the rectory. The grandmother is killed, but the gypsy arrives in time to rescue Yvette, and he carries her upstairs where they make love. The next morning the waters have receded and the gypsy has gone, but Yvette has freed herself of her inhibitions and leaves the village with Mrs. Fawcett and Major Eastwood.

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5.0 out of 5 starsAuthenticity
By J. L. Sievert on 9 Mar. 2015
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Lawrence was haunted by the feeling he was born out of place and time. He couldn't conform to what his society and age expected and demanded of him. So he became a wanderer and dreamer, a seeker of finer, better things in the world. He was stateless and school-less. He couldn't be put in boxes. His life's blood was his individuality and it became the basis of his now celebrated art. Nobody writes as Lawrence does because they are not him. He's what a free person in art and life can do if they want to be free.

The Virgin and the Gyspy is a short novella (published in 1930 shortly after his death). The book (and film) contain the standard elements that made Lawrence a rebel: tradition, rigidity, conformity and hypocrisy versus individuality, authenticity, free expression, liberation. Tradition is the north of England (geographical Lawrence territory) in the 1920s. Liberation is the worldly Continent in the form of young Yvette, aged 19, who has just returned home from studying there (in Lausanne). She is the virgin in the story, a being pure and unsullied. At least this is the intended symbolism. The gypsy is the eternal outsider, the wayfarer, the free spirit. Naturally, Yvette comes to identify with him. He is of her spiritual kind, and she his. He is virile, independent, uncorrupted and incorruptible. He represents nature in Lawrence's imagination: strong, steady, carefree, amoral.

We know where the story must go. We feel the sexual tension from the very start of their meeting at the gypsy's tent and camp. She cycles back on her rickety bicycle in her sun bonnet and cotton dresses to have her fortune read by the wife of the gypsy while the gypsy silently shoes horses or mends wagon wheels with a hammer. He is strong and masculine.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood film but so-so picture quality
By Steve VINE VOICE on 19 May 2010
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This is a reissue by Arrow Films of their 2007 release of 'The Virgin and the Gypsy'.

The film itself is a very good adaptation of D.H.Lawrence's novel. It is well acted, my only reservation being Franco Nero's accent which veers somewhere between Irish, Italian, and a general mumble. Still, he looks the part, and there is fine use of Derbyshire locations in the excellent cinematography.

But the film print used has some grain and a lot of scratches, and worst of all, although the opening credits are shown (correctly) in widescreen, the rest of the film is shown in full screen, which ruins the composition of the photography, and makes the print's faults even more visible. What a shame.

There is a useful extra, being a 35 minute talk including Honor Blackman and the film's director, after a public screening of the film in Belper, Derbyshire. Also the chap who appeared as a 6 month old baby in the film makes a guest appearance!

Despite the issues with the picture quality, I think this is a special film and I would still strongly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFloods of Passion
By droog on 6 Jan. 2015
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There is one main theme in the film and that is the search for self-expression in a small, repressed class-ridden world. Within the claustrophobic atmosphere of the stony,stone-built vicarage, the vicar's daughters, Lucy and Yvette ,
yearn for freedom from the vile matriarch, Mater; fresh from schooling in France, Yvette especially is ready to rebel.

In the gloomy dungeon of the vicarage, there is Aunt Sissy, Grandmother,who is going deaf and doolali and the high-church vicar himself. The girls' mother had left years before and the couple had divorced but the vicar did not want to talk about that, what he considered to be his ex-wife's 'sin' . However, there is also the jollier character of |Uncle Fred the only person in the house who seems to be normal and unrepressed. From the start, it is obvious that Yvette is going to be trouble because she refuses to conform to the diktats of her class-conscious grandmother who has ideas way above her station.

Now there are early markers as to the quest towards freedom. First there is the gypsy whom Yvette meets whilst out in the car with a couple of vacuous rich boys; secondly, the runaway couple, Mrs. Fawcett and Major Eastwood who have already made their journeys to self-fulfilment and invite Yvette to see them for some infra-dig skinny dipping but thirdly, physically and metaphorically, the rising river which will be the agency by which everything will be positively resolved. All these elements are carefully woven into the narrative.

There is the real-man gypsy contrasting,of course as is common with Lawrence with the weak rich scions who don't work.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the greatest movies of the early 70s.
By FAMOUS NAME VINE VOICE on 18 April 2008
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This is one of those films one saw as a child that always had an impact and once seen, is never forgotten.

I waited years for this to be released on Video, but it never happened, and then we had to wait years again for it to come out on DVD, and now finally the wait is over! Unfortunately, (and it may be a surprise to many) this has not been re-mastered, which is a bit odd, since it is a classic and a much acclaimed British movie. Still, this does not detract from the gem that it is.

Maurice Denham is simply charming as the 'gentle' Rector of a small village where his two wayward and motherless daughters come home from their schooling in France to become young women. Being the only man in the household surrounded by the weaker sex - except 'Uncle Fred' (played by Norman Bird who cannot be taken too seriously) has a difficult task in protecting his daughters and keeping them 'innocent' from the 'ways of the world'.

The opening scenes to this movie are quite humorous with the traits and characteristics from the marvellous roles played by Kay Walsh and the great Fay Compton.

Yvette (the most wayward of the two girls) is certainly 'feeling her feet' as a young woman (I knew the feeling myself when I was watching this as a much younger child!) and bored and frustrated by the quiet and 'uneventful' life at a country Rectory. As a consequence, she begins to 'fantasise' about a handsome gypsy whom she meets - quite by chance whilst out with some boring friends. These 'innocent' daydreams are reminiscent of what we all had at that tender age of adolescence, and one of the most romantic and exciting scenes is when the same gypsy turns up at the Rectory to sell his wares, and sees Yvette once again. He tells her to 'come Friday - I'll be there'.Read more ›
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