Priest of Love (1981)

Priest of Love (1981)

"I shall always be a priest of love, and a glad one. Once you've known what love can do, there's no disappointment and no despair." ... so wrote D.H.Lawrence to a friend on Christmas day 1912 - from Lake Garda in Italy - having just met Mrs Frieda Weekley, his future wife. The film demonstrates the extraordinary lives this brave writer and remarkable woman shared together from then on, not only by revealing their real friends and lovers, critics and enemies, but by showing, despite their struggles and financial difficulties, how the many places in which they lived influenced his writing and painting.

San Sebastian Film Festival - (Diploma) - 1981
San Diego Film Festival - Opening Film - 1981
London Film Festival - (Diploma) Closing Film -1982

Theatrical re-released Director's cut for D.H.Lawrence's Centenary 1985

French Premier - Saturday, 5th June 2010 - at 21hrs:
Cinema Studio 28, rue Tholozé, Paris 18e

Special Screening - Sunday 8th May 2011 - at 18hrs
in aid of 'Love the Little' Cinema Theatre in Bath

DVD release of restored Director's cut by Kino-Lorber Inc. New York USA - May 2011
Priest of Love Savant Blu-ray Review

DVD available with extras - 'C'est la Vie' 2002
CD available of the film music by Joseph James - D S#ARP (Stradtime Ltd) - 1981