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The simple and sensual pleasures of 'Chatterley'
Full-frontal nudity fights a losing battle for screen time with lingering shots of squirrels, lizards, ferns, moss and other less salacious aspects of the natural world in "Lady Chatterley," the latest film to be inspired by D.H. Lawrence's once-controversial tale about the sexual relationship between a young upper-class British woman and the gamekeeper employed by her husband.
Sometimes, director Pascale Ferran unites the botanical and anatomical, as in a sequence that finds the grateful postcoital gamekeeper (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) decorating the nude and happy Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands) with wildflowers, leaves and other bits of foliage, so that she becomes an explicit symbol of the forces of fecund, urgent and innocent nature. In fact, Hands appears so guileless that Lady Chatterley's cheating on Sir Clifford (Hippolyte Girardot), her injured and impotent husband, seems less like betrayal than a biological inevitability, like the blossoming of Constance's beloved daffodils in the spring.
Contrary to what one might expect, "Lady Chatterley" is not an adaptation of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" but of Lawrence's 1927 novel "John Thomas and Lady Jane," which preceded by a year the author's more famous rewrite of the same story. Whatever the source, the movie -- which moseys along for two hours and 47 minutes before the end credits -- will tax the patience of viewers who aren't willing to submit to its gentle, dare we say feminine approach to Lawrencean sensuality (Ferran is reportedly the first woman to direct a Chatterley feature). Sympathetic moviegoers, however, might find the film almost comforting in its simplicity, its generosity toward its characters and its unwillingness to hector viewers in hopes of eliciting a predetermined emotional response.
The winner of five César Awards (France's equivalent of the Oscar), including those for Best Picture and Best Actress, "Lady Chatterley" is playing exclusively at Malco's Ridgeway Four.
The movie is in French with English subtitles.
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Cyprus Spiny Mouse
Slow Loris
Western Woolly Lemur
What do all these creatures have in common? Besides funny sounding names that would also work great in an MMORPG? They are all Nocturnal. Which means they are active at night. And on Tuesday, June 2, at 2 p.m. teens are invited to interact with some of these Nighttime Ninjas! as part of the first week of the library's 2015 Summer Reading Program.
The Nighttime Ninjas program is intended for those 12 years of age and older. Teens will interact with several nocturnal creatures and learn from animal experts about their survival and habits.
For those under the age of 12, please know this program is coming back on July 23, especially designed for children.
It's part of the zoo's series of outreach events made available thanks to a grant from the Oklahoma City Zoological Trust.
Registration is not required in advance to attend, but seating is limited so early arrival is encouraged.

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Australian Scientists Stunned by Crab Invasion
MELBOURNE, Australia — A 50,000-strong swarm of spider crabs gathered off a Melbourne beach this week, covering a stretch of seafloor the size of a football field and likely "scaring the hell" out of local fish, marine scientists said.
Museum Victoria scientists Mark Norman and Julian Finn said they filmed the mass gathering, which was up to a meter (3.3 feet) deep in places, with crabs piled 10 high.
Spider crabs are about 20 centimeters (nine inches) long with legs extending up to 40 centimeters.
Norman told The Age newspaper on Thursday the reason for the mass swarming was unknown, but it was likely related to breeding.
The crabs are normally found in small groups in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay and the Bass Strait, but few people have encountered an invasion of this scale, he said.
"We got some earlier warning from divers that they were here en masse, but we had no idea it was going to be so big," he said.
"It was like something out of a science-fiction movie… as far as you could see there were crabs," he said, adding that the crustaceans were "scaring the hell out of local fish".
The swarm began gathering early this week but by Thursday was thinning out, he said.
"This has been observed elsewhere in the world, like the Mediterranean … it's not a rare event, but it's rare that you encounter it."
Norman would not say exactly where the swarm was located, only that it was in four meters of water off a beach in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay.