Instead, Loving looks to be an evocative slice of period drama, centered on the real-life secretive interracial marriage between Mr. and Mrs. It opens with Richard promising to build Mildred a house-“our house”-and follows them as they travel to Washington, D.C.to get married before returning to their home state”.
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His fifth and newest film “Loving” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, earning critical acclaim and a wider release that could figure it into the larger Oscar discussion later in 2016. The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision held this prohibition was unconstitutional and ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. Ruth Negga plays Mildred Loving and Joel Edgerton plays Richard Loving – two people who entered an interracial marriage at a time where so doing would inevitably result in scorn and persecution from a segregated, white supremacist society. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry, altering the course of history.
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Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special), the cast also includes Michael Shannon, Nick Kroll and Marton Csokas. Does the trailer make you want to see the movie?
