Nuori Lady Chatterley

Like `Emmanuelle' this movie belongs to a very short list of 70s sex farces that walked the line between titilation and comedy and managed to succeed as a tastefully tasteless movie. Eliminating the element of playfulness and fun from a movie whose primary function is sex means that you eliminate the danger of your movie looking foolish. I prefer movies that don't play it safe. The movie has become an underground classic among those who like sex in the movies but like to keep it soft core. Hard core pornography gets really old, really fast. `Young Lady Chatterly' has a connection with `Lady Chatterly's Lover' but I prefer this one because it's more farce then anything else. It stars Harlee McBride (later known as Mrs. Richard Belzer) as Cynthia Chatterly, Lady Chatterly's granddaughter who buys her grandmother's estate, finds her diary in a closet and begins to read up on ol' grams diddlings with a farmhand. This opens Cynthia's own sexual awareness and she begins the process of finding things to do around the house. In fact there are only a handful of actors in the movie that she doesn't have sex with. I'm not complaining simply because the sex scenes are not filmed that boring Hollywood tradition of having a lot of close-ups in slow-motion. The scenes are athletic, robust and far more titilating and leave a great deal to the imagination. Those scenes are nicely photographed showing and as much skin as possible while suggesting more then it really shows. The scenes range from hilarious to serious but never with a sense of exploitation and never with the laminated dullness of a Playboy video. `Young Lady Chatterly' is like curling up with a really trashy novel and smiling to yourself even when you shouldn't. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)