Loving

classified 12A
Film

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2017

Director
Jeff Nichols
Cast
Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon
Details
123 mins, 2016, UK/USA

Jeff Nichols (Mud, Midnight Special) directs Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga (who has just been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar®) in this true story of a couple who waged a decade-long legal battle contesting the state of Virginia’s laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

In 1958, with the Civil Rights movement still in its infancy, Richard Loving (Edgerton), a white construction worker, proposes to Mildred (Negga), a black manual labourer, and she says yes. What should be a happy beginning to their life together soon becomes an arduous legal and political battle against the state and society, as they experience arrest, trial, forced exile, kids and, finally, a historic battle with the Supreme Court.

A sensitive and understated look and love and trust, Nichols' film recognises how far the world has come while implicitly reminding us how far there is still to go.


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