well and you might not actually see any woman in love in this movie and but you will certainly hear woman talk about love and and men talk about love and and woman talk about men and and men talk about woman and and men talk about men and and everyone talk about death and and talk and and talk and until you yourself will want to scream and do something that require no talk at all and like paint your bedroom or water your plant . welcome to the world of d. h. lawrence and where psycho babble reign supreme and and where no one can get down to live a productive life because everyone be too busy talk about how unproductive their life be . spending time with the character in a d. h. lawrence novel be like be lock in a closet with a group of your most self absorbed acquaintance who you would run away from if you meet them at a party . when i read woman in love and i so desperately want to strangle every single character in it and but since i couldn not and i be hop they would at least strangle each other . ala and only one of them dy and not by strangulation and and i would not spoil it for you by tell which one and in case you actually give a damn about this story or any of these people . to give director ken russell his due and he make this filmed version about as entertaining a it possible to make this essentially unfilmable novel . he throw out much of the psychological mumbo jumbo that lawrence adore and and focus instead on all of the naughty part and so we get lot of histrionic lovemaking in bed and field and two buck naked men wrestle by firelight and and one embarrass scene feature alan bates ( yup and buck naked again ) roam around in a meadow make love to bush and grass ( i be not kid ) . glenda jackson win an oscar for her performance a gudrun and the more dominant of the two sister at the story focus and and she certainly try her hardest to do something with this material while anyone would deserve an oscar simply for have to bear russell decision to give her a scene where she have to dance wildly in front of a herd of mystified look cattle . oliver reed have one expression and an intense glower . the whole thing be over write and over direct and and it deliriously campy . indeed and this vies with mommie dearest a perhaps the most unintentionally hysterical movie i have ever see . grade represent d .