Loving (Jeff Nichols)

[Henry Gale]

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[Watashi]

This is good. It's surprisingly restrained and free of major conflict giving its subject matter. The film is more of a story about love than race (which Nichols intended). There's no big courtroom scene or drawn out speech. Very rare to see in a film like this.

[Peng]

Jeff Nichols' approach of finding the tactile mundane to offset the big picture works very well for me in Midnight Special, where it grounds the spectacle into a feeling of tangible, real awe. But here it has a mixed result when he applies it to a true story, especially more so when he doesn't bring (or maybe, with a story like this, dare to do?) the sublime elision of plot from that film along with him. So everything here is stressed into a big work of Understated, which has its charm but is also very, very blunt in its own way as much as dramatic, sentimental films are too. However, both Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are so great they help anchor the entire film. Rarely has the sentiment of "Can you all leave us damn well alone to live our lives?" felt so clearly expressed with fewer words, and with such intensity of quiet dignity and grace as well. 6.5/10

Also had the biggest smile when Michael Shannon first appeared. That man is a treasure