Passes the Bechdel test

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Name: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Released: 2022

2022. Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, written by David Magee and D.H. Lawrence.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
9 women characters. 8 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 128.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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The film

A story well ahead of its time, We follow the life of Lady Chatterley, a woman born to a life of wealth and privilege, who soon finds herself married to a man that she eventually falls out of love with. Lady Chatterley engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate, discovering more desire and intimacy than she thought possible. When she realizes that she has fallen heart and soul, she breaks all traditions of the day and seeks happiness with the man she loves.

Released: 02 Dec 2022
Genres: Drama, Romance
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.6 / 10
Metascore: 67 / 100
Awards: 2 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Connie 327 lines, woman
Clifford 166 lines, man
Mellors 158 lines, man
Mrs. Bolton 52 lines, woman
Hilda 44 lines, woman
Mrs. Flint 25 lines, woman
Michaelis 7 lines, man
Mrs. Betts 7 lines, woman
Sir Malcolm 7 lines, man
Ned 6 lines, man

Full cast, 29 people

Emma Corrin as Connie Reid
Jack O'Connell as Oliver Mellors
Matthew Duckett as Clifford Chatterley
Joely Richardson as Mrs. Bolton
Faye Marsay as Hilda
Ella Hunt as Mrs. Flint
Anthony Brophy as Sir Malcolm Reid
Rachel Andrews as Lily
Eugene O'Hare as Michaelis
Jonah Russell as Mr. Linley
Nicholas Bishop as Ned
Alistair Findlay as Sir Geoffrey Chatterley
Sandra Huggett as Mrs. Betts
Ellie Piercy as Mrs. Wheedon
Rachel Pedley as Mrs. Thompson
Zoé Wallon as Baby Josephine
Marianne McIvor as Mrs. Warren
Christopher Jordan as Mr. Betts
Harrison McHarron as Stong Worker Interviewee
Holly Dennis as Kelly Martin
Luke Seddon as Chatty Party Guest
Bessie Tucker-Anthony as May Day Girl
Nicola Bandiera as Venice Boy
Cesare Codolo as Venice Boy
Clotilde Ballini as Venice Gossip
Pamela Brocchetta as Venice Gossip
Diane Bianco as Venice Gossip
Thomas Rantell as Sheep Farmer
James Askill as Pub Patron

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 128

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	23	4
4 to 6	8	16
7 to 9	7	3
10 to 12	10	11
13 to 15	8	7
16 to 18	6	0
19 to 21	7	6
22 to 24	30	9
25 to 27	17	22
28 to 30	12	15
31 to 33	8	0
34 to 36	14	8
37 to 39	10	13
40 to 42	13	0
43 to 45	18	17
46 to 48	7	4
49 to 51	8	11
52 to 54	5	9
55 to 57	3	5
58 to 60	8	0
61 to 63	8	5
64 to 66	7	7
67 to 69	19	8
70 to 72	12	20
73 to 75	19	1
76 to 78	5	3
79 to 81	17	12
82 to 84	28	47
85 to 87	10	12
88 to 90	15	7
91 to 93	15	1
94 to 96	15	15
97 to 99	2	2
100 to 102	9	4
103 to 105	4	4
106 to 108	4	13
109 to 111	19	8
112 to 114	15	15
115 to 117	8	0
118 to 120	4	0
121 to 123	3	0
124 to 126	7	3
127 to 128	1	5

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

CONNIE: You must know your way around the estate better than I do. LILY: Oh no, m’lady - I couldn’t visit while my mother was working. CONNIE: In that case we’ll have to learn our way around together then, won’t we, Lily?

HILDA: Connie? It’s me. CONNIE: Hilda! You came! HILDA: What on earth are you doing? What is all this? CONNIE: Nothing. I wanted a change, is all.

CONNIE: That isn’t necessary. Thank you. Good day, Mrs. Flint. MRS. FLINT: Do come again!

CONNIE: Hilda! Oh, it’s so good to see you! HILDA: It’s been too long. CONNIE: I have so much to tell you. HILDA: So it would seem.

CONNIE: Hilda. HILDA: What do you want me to say?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 57 are women's.

468 lines from women, 352 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

9 women and 8 men in the cast. 8 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 14 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 54% of the words (5,310), men 46% (4,446). Women have 57% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

6 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 51% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (woman)
Written by: David Magee (man)
Produced by: Graham Broadbent (man), Peter Czernin (man), Elizabeth Gabler (gender not listed), Laurence Mark (man)
Shot by: Benoît Delhomme (man)
Edited by: Nina Annan (gender not listed), Géraldine Mangenot (woman)
Music by: Isabella Summers (woman)
Production design by: Karen Wakefield (woman)
Costumes by: Emma Fryer (woman)
Cast by: Kharmel Cochrane (woman)