Chatterleys

When the new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover arrived on Netflix earlier this month, it came with an R rating for strong sexual content and graphic nudity. The period drama features several lengthy and uninhibited romantic scenes…

As a onetime English major, I’m about to admit something truly humiliating: I have never read Lady Chatterley’s Lover. I’m sure it was assigned to me at some point in college, but what can I say? I was too busy playing Grand Theft Auto and…

So, how to bring freshness to a story that has already been adapted countless times? “With a very loose camera,” answers De Clermont-Tonnerre. “And the costumes.” Credit, she says, must go to costume designer Emma Fryer, who tracked down…