The Loving Story (2012)
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 10/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
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This Oscar-shortlisted film is the definitive account of the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage: Loving v. Virginia. Married in Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter returned home to Virginia where their marriage was declared illegal-he was white, and she was black and Native American. Hope Ryden's luminous, newly discovered home movie footage of the Lovings and their feisty young lawyers and rare photography by Grey Villet are
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Mildred Jeter Loving
Mildred Jeter Loving -
Richard Perry Loving
Richard Perry Loving -
Bernard S. Cohen
Bernard S. Cohen -
Philip Hirschkop
Philip Hirschkop -
Peggy Loving
Peggy Loving -
Sydney Jeter
Sydney Jeter -
Donald Loving
Donald Loving -
Garnet Jeter
Garnet Jeter -
Lola Loving
Lola Loving -
Kenneth Edwards
Kenneth Edwards -
Lewis Jeter
Lewis Jeter -
Robert Pratt
Robert Pratt -
Edward Ayers
Edward Ayers -
Raymond Green
Raymond Green -
Ruthie Holliday
Ruthie Holliday -
Robert Pierpoint
Robert Pierpoint -
Hope Ryden
Hope Ryden -
Abbott Mills
Abbott Mills -
Caitlin Congdon
Caitlin Congdon
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (0)
The tone of the film is solemn and pious, which seems almost inevitable when the topic is segregation and racial intolerance. But there are other reasons to watch this film besides feel-good expediency.
Top CriticTheir story is a powerful statement about freedom.
A low-key but moving documentary about two low-key people and their moving struggle.
The film strikes a quiet, contemplative tone that befits its soft-spoken subjects rather than the tumultuous times in which they lived.
The Loving Story is a different kind of 1960s civil rights tale, one that in many ways has a deeper level of warmth.
One of the many virtues of Buirski's film is that it doesn't hit viewers over the head with the parallel between the Lovings' case and the debate over same-sex marriage.
A riveting documentary about the case that went all the way to the Supreme Court and legalized interracial marriage in 1967.
The film's story of this Supreme Court victory lays out both its legal and moral import, and then turns back to Richard and Mildred Loving's experience.
The verite footage from the time is a real blessing and the documentary's primary cinematic attraction. The rest, though, is occasionally its technical distraction.
Perhaps the strongest aspect of Nancy Buirski's doc is that it allows the Lovings to tell their story in their own words.
A moving, must-see documentary about the demise of one of the last vestiges of segregation. Could it be more fitting that the plaintiffs in the landmark case eradicating the crime of loving a person of a different color would be named Loving!
Beautifully made, deeply inspirational documentary about one history-making couple.
Brilliant debut film about a landmark case on miscegenation, reminiscent in many ways of the struggle for gay marriage today.
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One of the highlights of "The Loving Story" is listening to audio recordings of Supreme Court arguments which I had never heard before.(One of the lawyers says being in front of the Supreme Court was like looking in the face of God.) While I normally don't favor the approach of relying on archival and previously shot documentary footage, here it works well to let us not only get to know the couple at the heart of the case but also what it was like to live in a time and place that was a lot more complicated than any of us had been led to believe.