Loving (2016)

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Movie
German title Loving
Original title Loving
Country of production United Kingdom ,
United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jeff Nichols
script Jeff Nichols
production Nancy Buirski ,
Ged Doherty ,
Colin Firth ,
Sarah Green ,
Peter Saraf ,
Marc Turtletaub
music David Wingo
camera Adam Stone
cut Julie Monroe
occupation

Loving is a British - American feature film directed by Jeff Nichols , who also wrote the script. The film is the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving who died in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia won a lawsuit in Supreme Court that overruled previous intermarriage laws . Actors Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga played the main roles of the Loving couple .

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2016 , where it was screened in international competition. The film opened in US cinemas on November 4, 2016. In Germany it was released on June 15, 2017.

action

The Black Mildred Jeter and the White Richard Loving live north of Richmond , Virginia . Mildred becomes pregnant and the couple decide to marry. They travel to Washington, DC , where the wedding is legal, but on their return to Virginia they are arrested by the sheriff after receiving an anonymous tip. You will be charged because Virginia law prohibits mixed marriages. In order to get only a suspended sentence, the Lovings plead guilty on the advice of their attorney, but they have to leave Virginia on the condition not to re-enter as a married couple for the next 25 years. You are staying with friends in Washington. They secretly return to Virginia to have their first child delivered by Richard's mother, a midwife. After giving birth, they are arrested again, and only because their lawyer takes the blame for having advised them wrongly does the judge let them go.

After a few years - the couple now has three children - when Mildred was increasingly suffering from the forced separation from her relatives who were still living in Virginia, she wrote to the US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , who sent the case to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). refers. An ACLU attorney suggests that the Lovings be arrested again in Virginia for appeal to federal court, but they do not respond. Mildred, however, longs for country life, and when one of the sons is hit by a car and is slightly injured, Mildred packs the bags and the Lovings move to a remote house in Virginia. There they are constantly on the lookout not to be discovered. Mildred contacts the lawyer again. This time around, the couple agree to take their case to court to file a constitutional complaint with the Supreme Court if defeat is expected . Since the lawyers consider public reporting beneficial, they even allow Life reporter Gray Villet to take very private pictures of them. Once published, Richard is threatened anonymously at the workplace. It actually comes to the case before the Supreme Court. The Lovings decide not to be there in person. When the attorney asked if he should give the judge something, Richard replied yes, that he loved his wife. On June 12, 1967, the court decided in its judgment Loving v. Virginia that any prohibition of interracial marriage is against the United States Constitution. Richard begins building the house for his family on the land he bought before marriage.

reception

Jeff Nichols, Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival

The film received positive reviews from the critics. Based on 208 critics , Rotten Tomatoes has 89% positive reviews with an average rating of 7.6 out of 10 points. Metacritic has a Metascore of 79 points based on 46 critics.

Christoph Petersen sums up the film starts : "Jeff Nichols consistently dispenses with the usual stylistic devices of civil rights cinema and precisely for this reason creates a particularly lasting and touching, deeply human work."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Loving . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 162124 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Loving at festival-cannes.com, accessed on July 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Loving at Rotten Tomatoes (English)Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / Unnecessary use of parameter 2Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / Various connoisseurs in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  4. ↑ Loving at Metacritic (English)
  5. ↑ Christoph Petersen: Film criticism on film starts , accessed on June 27, 2017.