the old axiom that bore people be boring people be well demonstrate in woman in love . the script and take from d. h. lawrence novel and contain an endless flow of concept that be and at best and sophomoric . what a pity so much effort go into so vacuous an exercise while what an empty array of character give such attention . in spite of high production value and this film come across as tedious a it personnel . a revisit in 2001 merely confirm a 1969 impression of juvenille mind in adult body and dawdle nowhere and and fumble every step of the way .