L'amant de Lady Chatterley

Director Pasquale Fanetti, in his film e l'amante (The Lover), hit a jackpot in the cinema of erotica. Although I saw it 10 years ago, yet I remember every small detail of this erotic picture. The movie is about a beautiful wife (Malu`) who marries a rich man but he is old and palletized. It seems that she has no alternative, but to seek and engage in sexual activities outside her marriage. Her lover is the help in their estate. Also, there are some sad moments when the viewers realized that the married couple are trying very hard to please each other, yet one of them (the husband) obviously cannot function and therefore the wife's options are limited. The movie was filmed in high quality image. Malu`, through many amorous scenes, pushes the Art of Erotica to a full throttle. She goes very far in her pursue of sexual fulfilment. This is a first class movie in the cinema of erotica.

Writer/director Pasquale Fanetti tries his hand at the D. H. Lawrence classic with mixed results. On the plus side, the pretty hill-top village of Castelfalfi serves as the location and the two female leads, Malù as Lady Chatterley and Debora Calì as the model are quite something to behold, but the rest of the film is rather flat.

As in the original, Lady Chatterley is frustrated at her husband's inability to perform his husbandly bedroom duties and so she seeks solace in the arms - and bed - of the lustily handsome hired estate hand. There is also the added complication of the stunningly beautiful artist's model who is posing for Lady Chatterley's artwork. Both the model and the hired hand lust after each other, and as the old saying goes, three into two won't go.

Despite both leading ladies willing to shed their clothes, the sex scenes are rather underwhelming which is ultimately the fault of the director. Finally, there is a problem with the running time which says 104 minutes on both the IMDb page and the DVD cover but which actually comes in at a measly 78 minutes for the Italian DVD - so something is seriously amiss. Only two stars from me then.