Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women?
Cinematography
Bleak winter landscapes that suffocate and seduce
Acting
Heywood's guarded longing, Dennis's desperate cling
Direction
Rydell lets tension curdle in pregnant pauses
Director
Mark Rydell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anne Heywood replaced the original lead days before shooting; the sexual tension you see? Mostly improvised under pressure.
Lawrence's 1922 novella was banned for obscenity; this 1967 adaptation still couldn't say 'lesbian' aloud, so it showed instead.
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