Jill Banford (Sandy Dennis) and Ellen March (Anne Heywood) are raising chickens in the remote Canadian wilderness. They keep losing chickens to a wily fox. One day, Paul Renfield (Keir Dullea) arrives looking for his grandfather who was the late previous owner. The girls allow him to stay. He slowly insinuates himself in their lives dividing them when he proposes to Ellen.
I don't know much about the D. H. Lawrence novella. The movie builds up to a nice tension with the conflict between Jill and Paul over Ellen. He should have stayed with them to continue building that tension. When he leaves, the movie takes a break and it has an uptick for the climax. There could have some great conflict opportunities with a more direct climax. As it stands, it has a literary distance despite the emotional powder keg. I'm ready for it to set it off but the climax is more a metaphor than anything else.
I don't know much about the D. H. Lawrence novella. The movie builds up to a nice tension with the conflict between Jill and Paul over Ellen. He should have stayed with them to continue building that tension. When he leaves, the movie takes a break and it has an uptick for the climax. There could have some great conflict opportunities with a more direct climax. As it stands, it has a literary distance despite the emotional powder keg. I'm ready for it to set it off but the climax is more a metaphor than anything else.