Director: Jeff Nichols
Producers: Nancy Buirski, Ged
Doherty, Colin Firth, Sarah Green, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Michael
Shannon, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Alano Miller, Bill Camp, Jon
Bass, Sharon Blackwood
Running time: 2 h 3 min
Interracial
couple Richard and Mildred Loving fight for their right to marriage in Jeff
Nichols’ Loving. Beyond creating a
beautiful film, Nichols manages to anchor his argument for human rights by
telling a human story. The history of this court case is important but it’s
nothing you couldn’t read out a newspaper. The film speaks beyond its subject’s
own history because it is rooted in the universal experience of the pursuit of
happiness. The treatment of sound uses expert subtlety to evoke suspense in
order to create the experience of fear and uncertainty in a story we all
already know the ending to. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred
Loving live out Nichols’ vision of humility and bravery without becoming
archetypal heroes. In a world in which many are still fighting for their right
to a normal life, Nichols reminds us that marriage is a human entitlement and
not a political statement in this refreshingly human biopic.
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