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Women in Love
UNITED KINGDOM · 1969

Women in Love

Ken Russell
erotic love female independence class conflict philosophical idealism romantic rivalry
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Synopsis

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Cinema Atlas Connection
When I was developing Call Me by Your Name, I really wanted to work with the idea of a character who is experiencing the first flush of love, a bit like Rupert Birkin in Women in Love, or one of the boys in L’Atalante.
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This Film Influenced

→ Call Me By Your Name (2017)

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