A Kind of Loving

1962

Action / Drama / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 85% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 2904 2.9K

northern england based on novel or book working class black and white kitchen sink realism manchester

Plot summary

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Director

John Schlesinger Photo
John Schlesinger

Top cast

Joe Gladwin Photo
Joe Gladwin as Bus Driver
Douglas Livingstone Photo
Douglas Livingstone as Window Cleaner
John Ronane Photo
John Ronane as Draughtsman
James Bolam Photo
James Bolam as Jeff
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.02 GB
1200*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 2
1.89 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by simon-vaughan 8 / 10

Wow. What a trip to the past ...

Reviewed by simon-vaughan 8 / 10

Wow. What a trip to the past ...

I have just finished viewing A Kind of Loving (DVD) and have been inspired to comment here at IMDb. What a touching film with real honesty.A real intimate portrait of life in the early 60s in England. Displaying the kind of innocence of that time which we now look back on and wryly smile.But here we have an truth which can only be gained by a cross-section of life at that time. The scenes of the factory work environment, catching public transport, the pubs, even the intimacies of home life.I'm so glad it was filmed in B&W as it emphasized too well the drear lives that people at that time were enduring. (English weather ... gotta love it.) The whole film seemed to be a spiraling downwards right to the end, until there was that tiny (tiny!) upturn at the end ... so things may not be that bad after all? Personally I reckon the recover of this doomed relationship would be short-lived.Thora Hird ... what can I say. The only comparable mother in law I can remember was Ethel Merman in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. 10 out of 10 Thora.And Alan Bates ... what a wonderful performance. Restrained yet so powerful, in a role that would have been so hard to display such strength.Hire it, buy it ... but make sure you get to see it.
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