A Kind of Loving (film)
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| A Kind of Loving | |
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| Directed by | John Schlesinger |
| Produced by | Joseph Janni |
| Written by | Keith Waterhouse Willis Hall Stan Barstow (novel) |
| Starring | Alan Bates June Ritchie Thora Hird |
| Music by | Ron Grainer |
| Cinematography | Denys Coop |
| Release date(s) |  12 April, 1962 1 October 1962 |
| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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A Kind of Loving is a 1962 British film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in 1960s Lancashire. The photography was by Denys Coop, and the music by Ron Grainer. Filming locations included the towns of Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester and St Anne's-on-sea in the north of England.
The film belongs to the British New Wave movement in film, and the related genre commonly known as "kitchen sink drama".
[edit] Plot summary
Vic Brown (Bates) is a draftsman in a Lancashire factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured with her. He then learns she is pregnant so he proposes marriage and the couple move in with her domineering mother Mrs Rothwell (Thora Hird), who looks down on Vic. Ingrid has a miscarriage, Vic has regrets and comes home drunk. The couple then consider the possibility of making do with a 'kind of loving'.
[edit] Awards
The film won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1962.
[edit] External links
- A Kind of Loving at the Internet Movie Database
- A Kind of Loving at Allmovie
- A Kind of Loving at Britmovie
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| Preceded by La notte |
Golden Bear winner 1962 |
Succeeded by Il diavolo |
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