The indiscreet room
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The indiscreet room |
| Original title | The L-Shaped Room |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bryan Forbes |
| script | Bryan Forbes |
| production |
Richard Attenborough , James Woolf , John Woolf |
| music |
John Barry , Muir Mathieson |
| camera | Douglas Slocombe |
| cut | Anthony Harvey |
| occupation | |
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The indiscreet room (original title: The L-Shaped Room ) is a British film drama from 1962. The screenplay is based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks .
action
Jane Fosset, a 27-year-old French woman, is leaving her rural home and moving to London. She's spending a weekend with an unemployed actor. It is only later that she realizes that she is pregnant. She moves into a poor guesthouse in Notting Hill and lives there in an L-shaped room. Jane is considering whether to have the child aborted. But after talking to a doctor, she wants to keep the child.
After a while, Jane gets involved with the unsuccessful writer Toby. Their relationship pleases most of their neighbors, who are mostly prostitutes and actresses. Only her neighbor Johnny, a black jazz musician and Toby's friend, is not fond of the friendship. Johnny found out about Jane's pregnancy. After hearing Jane and Toby's love noises through the thin wall, he informs his friend of Jane's condition. The disappointed Toby leaves Jane, who then tries to kill her unborn child with pills that she got from Mavis, an actress. But the attempt to kill the child fails and Jane accepts that she will have the child.
Toby returns to Jane, but he cannot accept a child whose father he is not. When Jane gave birth to the baby, Toby visits her. He shows her the manuscript of his first completed story, which is entitled The L-Shaped Room . Jane leaves the hospital to return to France. She leaves the manuscript with a message telling Toby that the story is beautiful, but that it has no end. With one ending, the story would be wonderful.
background
The film premiered on November 20, 1962. It first appeared in German cinemas on November 8, 1963.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film called Das Indiskrete Zimmer an “intelligent film adaptation of a life-critical novel without illusions; atmospherically densely photographed, played excellently in the female lead ”.
Variety praised Forbes' tactful and sensitive direction, who made the film a delicate study of loneliness and frustrated love. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was delighted with the well-engineered rendering of Leslie Caron. The success of the film is not only due to Leslie Caron. The rest of the excellent cast, especially Tom Bell, and the work of the remarkable Bryan Forbes, are also remarkable.
Awards
The film was particularly successful for Leslie Caron, who was not only nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Actress in 1964 . In this category she won the Golden Globe and the British Film Academy Award . She came in third at the Laurel Award ceremony .
The film was also nominated for the British Film Academy Award for Best Picture and Best British Picture . The film received another nomination for the Golden Globe for the Samuel Goldwyn Award.
Web links
- The indiscreet rooms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The indiscreet room. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 27, 2019 .
- ↑ See The L-Shaped Room . In: Variety , 1962.
- ↑ Bosley Crowther : 'L-Shaped Room': Leslie Caron Grows Up in Harsh Story . In: The New York Times , May 28, 1963.