Fire of creativity
Forty years ago, when American film critic Roger Ebert reviewed the DH Lawrence biopic Priest of Love, he posed a question: “Would this movie be worth seeing if I didn’t care anything about the person it’s about?”
It’s an interesting idea to apply to the latest biography of the English writer. More than 90 years after his makes us care about a man we wish we didn’t. It’s as confounding, contrary and brilliant as the subject of its scrutiny.
