Saturday Afternoon
July 31, 2021
on NetFlix
2016 [PG-13] 2 hours 3 min
Black Lives Matter Collection
CAST: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marlon Csokas
GENRES: Social Issue Dramas, Movies Based on Real Life, Dramas
THIS MOVIE IS: Understated, Intimate, Romantic
A young couple’s interracial marriage in 1958 sparks a case the leads to the Supreme Court. Based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving. It’s a complex, subtle, quiet performance that gains its power through its believability more than the showiness we’ve come to expect in films like this one. “Loving” has few twists and turns. It is a rather straightforward drama, and therefore probably won’t be flashy enough for some viewers.