The L-Shaped Room
- Leslie Caron: Jane Fosset
- Tom Bell: Toby
- Brock Peters: Johnny
- Cicely Courtneidge: Mavis
- Avis Bunnage: Doris
- Anthony Booth: Boy in the street
- Bernard Lee. Charlie
The indiscreet room is a British drama film from the year 1962. The screenplay is based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks.
Action
Jane Fosset, a 27 -year-old Frenchwoman who leaves her rural home and moved to London. She spends a weekend with an unemployed actor. Only later she realizes that she is pregnant. She takes in a poor house in Notting Hill and inhabited there an L-shaped room. Jane weighs up whether to get an abortion the child. But after a conversation with a doctor she wants to keep the child.
After some time Jane leaves one with an unsuccessful writer Toby. Their relationship enjoys most of its neighbors, which are mostly prostitutes and actresses. Only her neighbor Johnny, a black jazz musician and Toby's friend, is not impressed by the friendship. Johnny has learned of Jane's pregnancy. Having Janes and Toby Love sounds heard through the thin wall, he informed his friend about Jane's condition. The disappointed Toby leaves Jane, who then tried to kill her unborn child with pills that she got from Mavis, an actress. But the attempt to kill the child fails and Jane accepts that she will get the child.
Toby returns to Jane, but he can not accept a child whose father he is not. When Jane has brought the baby to the world, Toby visited them. He shows her the manuscript of his first completed story, which is titled The L -Shaped Room. Jane leaves the hospital to return to France. You can return the manuscript with a message in which she writes Toby that the story is beautiful, but she had not yet ended. With one end of the story was wonderful.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film describes the film as an " intelligent film adaptation of a novel critical live without illusions; atmospherically photographed, played excellently in the female lead. "
The Variety praised Forbes tactful and sensitive director, a delicate study of loneliness and frustrated love doing from the film.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was impressed by the great mature representation of Leslie Caron. The success of the film lies not solely with Leslie Caron. Also the rest of the excellent cast, especially Tom Bell, and the work of the remarkable Bryan Forbes, were considerable.
Awards
Particularly successful was the film for Leslie Caron, who was not only nominated for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress. In this category she won the Golden Globe and British Film Academy Award. At the ceremony of the Laurel Award it ranked third
The film was also nominated for yet the British Film Academy Award for best film and best British film. Another nomination the film received at the presentation of the Golden Globe for the Samuel Goldwyn Award.
Background
The premiere of the film had on 20 November 1962. In German cinemas he first appeared on November 8, 1963.