Loving.

AuthorKrayewski, Ed
PositionFILM - Movie review - Brief article

Loving, out on DVD in February, tells the story of Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Jeter Loving (Ruth Negga), an interracial couple who got married in Washington, D.C., in 1958 to avoid Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws. The courtroom drama surrounding the Lovings' right to marry doesn't take center stage, and this isn't, at its core, a story about law or politics. Instead, Loving is a love story that plays out as the broader civil rights movement happens in the background.

In one scene, Mildred is completely detached as she watches the 1963 March on Washington from her friend's D.C. apartment. In another, Richard declines to attend the Supreme Court hearing about their case, instructing his lawyer only, "Tell the judge I love my wife." Their lengthy legal battles get virtually no screen time, although the travails of the inexperienced American Civil...

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