The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama romance film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Lynne Reid Banks. It tells the story of Jane Fosset (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a cheap London boarding house, befriending a young man, Toby (Tom Bell), in the building. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film reflected a trend in British films of greater frankness about sex and displays a sympathetic treatment of outsiders "unmarried mothers, lesbian or black" as well as a "largely natural and non-judgmental handling of their problems". As director, Forbes represents "a more romantic, wistful type of realism" than that of Tony Richardson or Lindsay Anderson.
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| author | Bryan Forbes Lynne Reid Banks |
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| award | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Bryan Forbes |
| editor | Anthony Harvey |
| genre | drama romance social |
| musicBy | Johannes Brahms John Barry |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best British Film BAFTA Award for Best Film Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Samuel Goldwyn International Award |
| producer | Jack Rix James Woolf Richard Attenborough |
| productionCompany | Romulus Films |
| publisher | British Lion Films |